MU 109 - Jazz History in America

Institution:

Baker University

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Description:

Jelly Roll, Kid, Sidney, Duke, Count, Satchmo, Fatha, Miles, and Bird: magical names that evoke the exciting world of jazz-one of America's greatest gifts to the world. This course is an intensive examination of the social forces, political conditions, personalities, and creative geniuses that combined to form the music that many have called America's only indigenous art form. Through an understanding of its roots, development, formal structure, and design, jazz becomes accessible to students and forms a basis for appreciating its sophistication, subtleties, and various modes of expression

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.bakeru.eduExternal link

Phone Number:

(800) 873-4282

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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