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3.00 Credits
Wogayehu. Offered through the Penn Language Center.
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3.00 Credits
Hailu, Wogayehu. Offered through the Penn Language Center.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. Offered through the Penn Language Center. An advanced Amharic course that will further sharpen the student's knowledge of the Amharic language and the culture of the Amharas. The learner's communicative skills will be further developed through listening, speaking, reading and writing. There will also be discussions on cultural and political issues.
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Muller. This class provides an overview of the most popular music styles and discussion of the cultural and political contexts in which they emerged in contemporary Africa. Learning to perform a limited range of African music/dance will be a part of this course. No prior performance experience required, though completion of Music 50 is recommended. (AFST257, PSCI210) Contemporary African Politics. (C) Callaghy, Markovits. The course will consist of an analytic survey of contemporary politics in the states of sub-Saharan Africa. It will focus on the complex relationships between state, society, economy, and external groups in Africa and will offer a conceptual framework which takes into account an African politics that is highly fluid and personalized and frequently very authoritarian in character. The course will endeavor to provide a synthesis of political, social, and economic analyses, which relate the prevailing tendency toward authoritarianism to the fragmented and rooted yet changing characteristics of African society and economy and to high levels of economic and political dependence on external actors. Particular attention will be paid to Africa's interrelated debt, economic, and development crises. (ANTH227, FOLK259, LALS258, MUSC258) Caribbean Music and Diaspora. (M) Rommen. This survey course considers Caribbean musics within a broad historical framework. Caribbean musical pracices are explored by illustrating the many ways that aesthetics, ritual, communication, religion, and social structure are embodied in and contested through performance. These initial inquiries open onto an investigation of a range of theoretical concepts that become particularly pertinent in Caribbean contexts--concepts such as post-colonialism, migrations, ethnicity, hybridity, sycretism, and gloalization. Each of these concepts, moreover, will be explored with a view toward understanding its connections to the central analytical paradigm of the course--diaspora. Throughout the course, we will listen to many different styles and repertories of music, ranging from calypso to junkanoo, from rumba to merengue, and from dancehall to zouk. We will then work to understand them not only in relation to the readings that frame our discussions, but also in relation to our own North-American contexts of music consumptions and production.
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3.00 Credits
Awoyale. Prerequisite(s): AFRC 171 or permission of the instructor. Offered through the Penn Language Center.
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3.00 Credits
Awoyale. Offered throught the Penn Language Center.
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3.00 Credits
Mshomba. Prerequisite(s): AFRC 181 or permission of the instructor. Offered through the Penn Language Center.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Beavers, Davis, Tillet. Spaces will be reserved for English Majors. In this advanced seminar, students will be introduced to a variety of approaches to African American literatures, and to a wide spectrum of methodologies and ideological postures (for example, The Black Arts Movement). The course will present an assortment of emphases, some of them focused on georgraphy (for example, the Harlem Renaissance), others focused on genre (autobiography, poetry or drama), the politics of gender and class, or a particular grouping of authors. Previous versions of this course have included "African American Autobigraphy," "Backgrounds of African American Literature," "The Black Narrative" (beginning with eighteenth century slave narratives and working toward contemporary literature), as well as seminars on urban spaces, jazz, migration, oral narratives, black Christianity, and African-American music. See the Africana Studies Program's website at www.sas.upenn.edu/africana for a description of the current offerings.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. Prerequisite(s): AFRC 280 or permission of the instructor. Offered through the Penn Language Center.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. Spaces will be reserved for English Majors. This course explores an aspect of the literature of Africa and the African Diaspora intensively; specific course topics will vary from year to year. See the Africana Studies Program's website at www.sas.upenn.edu/africana for a description of the current offerings.
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