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3.00 Credits
The study of race in Latin America has been too closely linked to the study of slavery. While slavery is central to the development of the culture and economy of the Americas, it is too easy to overlook the role of free blacks in the development of the independent nations of Latin America. We will examine the role of the Afro-Latin American community throughout the Americas as it struggled with issues of manumission, abolition, national independence, and industrialization. The newly independent states of Latin America struggled with ideas of race and modernity, and those struggles continue until today.
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3.00 Credits
This course will first explore the how political media has exploited fear in its constituents to attain more political power. This course will also track how performers of protest songs have used their platform to publish and challenge this exploitation. Even at risk of being blacklisted in the McCarthy era or blackballed in the War on Terror, blues artists like Josh White and Woody Guthrie paved the way for protest music in every genre. From Bob Dylan to Bob Marley, the tradition of protest music flourishes to create a grassroots checks and balances that is needed now more than ever.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the elements of rhythm and blues in the Afro-American sense and traces the influence of these elements on American popular and classical music from the early 1900s to the present. Records, tapes, and audio-visual material that include music from the early New Orleans period to present day Jazz/Rock and music videos will be used throughout the course.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides a thorough and detailed study and examination of the Black music that has come to be known as jazz. The socio-political nature of Black music in America, Black music in education, and the relationship between Black music and the mass media are considered.
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1.00 Credits
This course emphasizes study and performance of the religious music of the Black experience known as Spirituals and Gospels. One major performance is given each semester. Concerts and performances at local Black churches also occur with the Voices of Imani Gospel Choir. The Gospel Workshop will provide the lab experience for MU 321 (BK 266) and MU 322 (BK 285). Members of these classes will be required to attend a number of rehearsals and performances of the Gospel Workshop. Members of the classes may sing in the choir but it is not required for the course.
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1.00 Credits
This course emphasizes study and performance of the religious music of the Black experience known as Spirituals and Gospels. One major performance is given each semester. Concerts and performances at local Black churches also occur with the Voices of Imani Gospel Choir. The Gospel Workshop will provide the lab experience for MU 321 (BK 266) and MU 322 (BK 285). Members of these classes will be required to attend a number of rehearsals and performances of the Gospel Workshop. Members of the classes may sing in the choir but it is not required for the course.
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys the musical styles and genres of selected African cultures, emphasizing traditions of the sub-Saharan region. Using case studies, we will explore the thesis of J. H. Kwabena Nketia that musical styles are created to suit specific cultural needs. Historical traditions and modern musics are included with attention to issues of colonialism, nationalism, ethnicity, hybridity, diaspora and globalization. No prerequisite; the ability to read western European music notation is not required.
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3.00 Credits
No course description available.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces major themes in the study of Africa. Anthropological concepts such as culture, power, and subjectivity will be used to explore themes such as race, gender, colonialism, development, indigeneity, and belonging. We will primarily read ethnographies, (texts based on long-term field research) that seek to build our understanding of the world through close attention to the meanings that emerge from particular places and people. Students will learn the tools to analyze contemporary social issues in a variety of African contexts, to understand current research concerns in Africanist Anthropology, and to analyze anthropological concerns in ways that centers Africa.
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3.00 Credits
French visitors have been observing and commenting on race relations in the United States since before the Civil War. During the twentieth century Paris became a magnet attracting disillusioned African-American artists, musicians and writers in search of a home and an opportunity to express their talents. And today the French confront a history of colonialism and struggle to combat racism as they interact with immigrants from former colonies. What is racism? What are the influences that shape attitudes towards race relations? We will explore these issues in the writings of Tocqueville, Beauvoir, Wright, Baldwin and Fanon, among others.
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