HIS 390E - Special Topics in Liberal Studies: Music in 1960's America

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Antioch University-System Administration

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This course examines the varieties of musical voices of 1960s America. Students look at various musics as cultural artifacts, in an attempt to forge a revisionist view of what has become a mythologized decade in American history. Contemporary views reflecting back on the 1960s tend to either idealize the era for its sex, drugs, rock n' roll and successful social activism or denounce it as the beginnings of America's moral downfall. To address this historiographical mythology, the course moves chronologically through the 1960s, examining what musics reveal about changing notions of individuality, communality, social structures, politics, race, gender, the environment, sex, and spirituality. The goal is to understand how meaning was made and negotiated in different socio-cultural arenas by looking at the relationship between historical events, movements, attitudes, and the types of music that expressed them. No grade equivalents allowed. FINE ARTS & HUMANITIES DOMAINS

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1.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.antioch.edu

Phone Number:

(937) 769-1372

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

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