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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Choral literature, sacred and secular, from the Renaissance to the present, with emphasis on a study of selected masterworks from each period. SPRING.
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3.00 Credits
A history of music in the United States, 1620 to the present. Distinctly American musical traditions such as shape-notes, minstrelsy, jazz, twentieth-century syntheses. Recommended: MUSL 121W, 140, or 141, or music-reading skills sufficient to follow a score. FALL, SPRING.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of jazz history, with particular attention to the major composers, "Jelly Roll" Morton, Duke Ellington, and Thelonius Monk, who gave the music synthesis and form; and to its major innovative soloists, Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker, and Ornette Coleman, who renewed its musical language. FALL, SPRING.
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3.00 Credits
Historical study of ways the culture of a nation is reflected and sometimes shaped by the chosen musics of the groups comprising the American "salad bowl." Topics include audience reception; production and consumption; multiculturalism; and meaning. FALL, SPRING.
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3.00 Credits
Downhome, classic, Chicago, and urban blueshistory, musical structure, musical styles, singers' lives, and meanings of blues lyrics. The current blues revival, blues and tourism, race and revisionist blues scholarship, and the relation of blues to African American poetry and fiction. Artists such as Ma Rainey, Charley Patton, Robert Johnson, Lightnin´ Hopkins, Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Robert Cray. SPRING.
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3.00 Credits
A musical and cultural survey of the talents, traditions, and trends of country music from its Colonial roots to its current status as a multi-million dollar global industry. Focus on the music, creators, and performers of that music and its cultural and social contexts. FALL, SPRING.
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3.00 Credits
History and development of rock and roll music and its performance from the 1950s to the present. Major artists from each decade, subgenres (rockabilly, RandB, folk, soul, metal, pop, alternative, etc.), and technological, cultural, and economic developments that helped shape the music. FALL, SPRING.
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3.00 Credits
A study of how music, specifically swing and jazz from the 1930s and '40s, rock and roll and rhythm and blues in the 1950s, and soul music in the 1960s, impacted segregation and the Civil Rights Movement. Case studies and personal reflections from the perspective of a studio musician, record producer, and record company executive. Films, recordings, and oral histories of artists and producers. FALL, SPRING.
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3.00 Credits
World music as a cultural product; selected musics of Africa, Native America, India, Indonesia, and African America. Topics include music and religion, popular music, field work methodology, and gender issues. Not open to students who have completed MUSL 122. FALL.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of selected traditional and popular music of Africa. Historical, social, and cultural contexts; listening; some performances in class. SPRING.
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