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4.00 Credits
This course will examine the interplay of race and music in American popular culture over a period of some 200 years. Primary topics will include desire and the racial imagination, the relationships between social power and musical forms, and the expression of resistance to such power through music and popular culture. This course will be reading and writing intensive, and will focus on classroom discussion of written, visual, and audio materials. This course satisfies the Freshman Writing Requirement. Restricted to Freshmen.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to Africana Studies This core course employs interdisciplinary approaches to critically examine selected intellectual and cultural themes in African, African-American and Black-Diaspora studies. May have a lecture and discussion format, and may be team taught. Themes may also vary from year to year.
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3.00 Credits
The Idea of Race This course tracks the history of the concept of race in western science and society. Students are helped to appreciate the subjective influences of science as well as the variety of societal expressions of racial and racist ideas. (Cross listed with ANTH 371).
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3.00 Credits
African American History since Emancipation A survey of African American history from the colonial period to emancipation. Cross-listed with HIST 236.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
This course will examine "American" literature beyond its national boundaries. Using Haitian literature as the focal point, our exploration includes works by other writers from the Caribbean. Among these are: Jacques Romaine, Victor Sejour, Maryse Condé, Edourad Glissant and Carmel Victor. We will read English translations of work originally published in French, Spanish and Creole. Our objective is to acquire an understanding of the literary and multicultural relationships between the United States and the Caribbean.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
Black Expressive Culture is an interdisciplinary workshop in post-WW II African American vernacular music (1949-1980). The course focuses R&B and soul in a workshop setting, balancing ensemble performance and historical study of these genres. Students will learn to perform classic selections from the R&B and Soul repertories, as well as gain understanding of the history and development of these genres. Focus is also on inquiry into the socio-political and cultural contexts in which these genres emerged. Previous musical experience (ability to read music and play an instrument or sing) is required. Admission is by instructor permission only.
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3.00 Credits
West Africa Since 1800 Explores the survival of West Africans in ancient environments, subsequent challenges in trans-Saharan and Atlantic slave trade, colonial overrule, political independence, and ever-increasing globalization as well as relocation to rural America in the early Atlantic era and eventually to contemporary American cities. (Cross listed with HIST 280).
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3.00 Credits
Arts in Africa A study the multiple arts of Africa: two and three dimensional visual art, music, verbal arts, performance, and multiple media. Issues explored include the artist and community, creativity and tradition, art and religion, art and politics, and museums and display.
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4.00 Credits
Jazz A survey of jazz from its origins to the present, focusing on influential improvisers and composers, development of listening skills, and issues or race, gender, commerce, and criticism. (Cross listed as MUSC 273 and AMST 273).
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3.00 Credits
History of American Vernacular Dance An introduction, through films and lectures, to dance in U.S. popular culture with an emphasis on its development from roots in African dance to the vernacular forms of tap, ballroom, and jazz by examining the movement styles found in concert jazz, musical theatre, and popular social dances. (Cross listed with DANC 230).
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