CERS 0906 - Sorrow Songs, Freedom Songs and African American Religion

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Brown University

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This "hands-on," seminar-style course explores African American religion and culture from the colonial period to the present. We will focus particularly upon the ways in which the impulse for freedom has attained sacred value within African American experience, and how this impulse for freedom was expressed in the creativity of African American cultural forms, most especially in its music.

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0.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.brown.edu

Phone Number:

(401) 863-1000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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