Course details

Name: ENGL - 493

Title: SEMINAR IN AMERICAN LITERATURE

Section: 01

Semester: Fall - 2022

Credits: 3

Description:
This course examines the historical intersections between the social category of “race” and the production of popular music in the United States in the 20th and 21st centuries. Students will learn to analyze musical sounds as "text." More crucially, we will focus on the cultural, social, political, and economic dimensions (the "context") of genres including gospel, blues, jazz, rhythm and blues, rock, country, salsa, punk, hip hop, and techno. While the course will discuss the stylistic evolution of American popular music, the focus will be on reading or listening to, music as a historical text as a key to understanding major themes of recent American history

Last updated on 2022-03-28 By Lykidis Alexios (lykidisa)

Schedule: Wednesday From 10:45 am To 1:15 pm

Graduation requirements:

• Ethnic Studies (3b)

Teaching Faculty: Purcell Ryan (purcellr)

Is course canceled: No