Various kinds of mixing (e.g., racial, cultural) have been paramount in Latin America and the Caribbean, deeply informing musical sounds and practices, notions of national identity and more. This seminar will examine key scholarship on music that takes up questions of mestizaje, mestiçagem, créolité, and any number of other discourses of hybridity in the Latin American/Caribbean context. We will situate this investigation in relation to foundational writing such as Freyre's The Masters and the Slaves and Ortiz’s Cuban Counterpoint, that have shaped the meanings of hybrid cultures in the region(s). A central goal will be to better understand the processes, politics, and stakes for musical/cultural mixing and interrelationships between hybridities and music cultures in nation-states such as Brazil, Cuba, Peru, Haiti, etc. This course will also provide support for TAs assigned to MUS305, Music Cultures of Latin America and the Caribbean, which will be offered concurrently as an Arts and Sciences course.