0505-466 - Sounds of Protest

Institution:

Rochester Institute of Technology

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Description:

This course is designed to explore the variety of ways music has served as commentary on, and/or symbolic representation of social circumstances and events in America and selected world cultures historically and in the present. Students will research, listen to, analyze, and discuss music representing a variety of genres, styles, and cultures, ranging from selected non-Western music to various forms of European and American folk, popular, and concert music. Students will place this music in context through reading and discussion of writings on the arts, education, sociology, history, ethnomusicology, critical theories, and biography, writers and critical thinkers and topics that include race, gender, sexuality, economics, class, war, and politics, among others. Part of the American artistic experience concentration and music minor. It may also be taken as an elective. Class 4, Credit 4 (offered annually)

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.rit.edu/

Phone Number:

(585) 475-2411

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Quarter

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