African American Music

3 credits · Graduate

A seminar course focusing on music developed within or derived from African-American cultures from the beginning of the Atlantic slave trade to the present. While the weekly topics are organized primarily by chronology, the seminar is not designed as a broad or comprehensive survey of African-American music history, but rather as an investigation into selected moments in African-American history, the musical practices and repertories that accompanied them, and the relationship between music and the African-American experience in North America. EXCLUSIONS: MUSC 4375 FORMATS: Seminar