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A course designed to explore the African-American folk form known as the blues. While tracing the history of this unique form frames the course, particular emphasis is placed on understanding the blues as a window into the personal lives of those who perform it, and viewing the blues as a vehicle for social commentary. Part of the American artistic experience concentration; the music concentration and minor; and may also be taken as an elective. Class 4, Credit 4 (offered occasionally)
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This course is designed to explore the variety of ways music has served as commentary on, and/or symbolic representation of social circumstances and events in America and selected world cultures historically and in the present. Students will research, listen to, analyze, and discuss music representing a variety of genres, styles, and cultures, ranging from selected non-Western music to various forms of European and American folk, popular, and concert music. Students will place this music in context through reading and discussion of writings on the arts, education, sociology, history, ethnomusicology, critical theories, and biography, writers and critical thinkers and topics that include race, gender, sexuality, economics, class, war, and politics, among others. Part of the American artistic experience concentration and music minor. It may also be taken as an elective. Class 4, Credit 4 (offered annually)
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This course examines the history and aesthetics of the motion picture industry in the U.S. since the late 1960s, when the classical studio period ended. Emphasis will be placed on the analysis of both the work of major American filmmakers and the evolution of major American film genres. Among the filmmakers to be studied are Altman, Coen, Scorsese, Allen, Coppola, Seidelman, Lee, Tarantino, and Lynch. The course will consider the evolution of the traditional Hollywood genres, the development of new genres, the rise of the blockbuster, the rise of the independents, and the aesthetic changes that have occurred since the 1970's. Part of the American artistic experience concentration; the art history concentration and minor; and the theatre arts minor. It may also be taken as an elective. Class 4, Credit 4 (offered occasionally)
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A survey outlining the development of art in India and Southeast Asia examining the philosophical circumstances that distinguish eastern artistic traditions. There is opportunity for each student to pursue special interest in depth. Part of the art history concentration and minor and may also be taken as an elective. Class 4, Credit 4 (offered occasionally)
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A survey outlining the development of art in China, Korea and Japan examining the philosophical circumstances that distinguish eastern artistic traditions. There is opportunity for each student to pursue special interest in depth. Part of the art history, Chinese language/culture and Japanese language/culture concentrations and minors; the art history concentration and minor; and may also be taken as an elective. Part of the international studies East Asian program track. Class 4, Credit 4 (offered annually)
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This course will survey the American popular song and its composers and performers, taking into account the political, social and historical perspectives reflected in this commercial part of the vernacular music tradition. Part of the American artistic experience concentration; the music concentration and minor; and may also be taken as an elective. Class 4, Credit 4 (offered occasionally)
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This course examines the history and elements of popular and rock music in the US from the end of the 19th century to current times. Emphasis will be placed on the music that was written and performed after World War II. Students will be introduced to various styles of this genre as well as an introduction to those musical elements necessary to define a rudimentary analysis of the music. Among the composers and performers to be studied are early minstrel performers, Louis Armstrong; Scott Joplin; George Gershwin; blues musicians; Benny Goodman; Frank Sinatra; R and B musicians; country and western; Elvis Presley; Ray Charles; folk; Jimi Hendrix; disco; punk; metal; grunge and pop. Part of the American artistic experience concentration; the music concentration and minor; and may also be taken as an elective. Class 4, Credit 4 (offered occasionally)
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Examines the image of women in the visual arts and the role of women as image makers. Major topics include the variety of images of women, the evolution and change of these images over time, media images (as differentiated from fine art images) of women, images of women by women and by men, women's images and the issues of their relationship to the images made by men, the nude and pornography, history of women artists, selected women artists and their work, relation of their work to the art of the period, current issues and status of women artists. Part of the art history concentration and minor and may also be taken as an elective. Cross-listed with women and gender studies, 0522-480. Class 4, Credit 4 (offered annually)
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Introduction to the music of Beethoven in the psychological, political and philosophical contexts that gave it shape and force. Using the classical style of Haydn and Mozart as background, the course will focus on the development of the "Dionysian" personality in Beethoven's compositions and the creatioof the sublime in music. Part of the German language/culture concentration and minor; the music concentration and minor; and may also be taken as an elective. (0505-459 or equivalent) Class 4, Credit 4 (offered occasionally)
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4.00 Credits
This course provides a study of Johann Sebastian Bach, his life and times, and his music in the context of Baroque styles and aesthetics. Compositions from each of the major periods of his creative life are examined and discussed, particularly as they serve the social and religious purposes for which they were written, and as they reveal the psychology of so called "Rhineland mysticism."Part of the German language/culture concentration and minor; the music concentration and minor; and may also be taken as an elective. Class 4, Credit 4 (offered occasionally)
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