The Show-Tune Canon Meets the No-Show Songbook

Harvard FAS

a. This course places show-tunes in radical dialogue with street-music of the 20th century: rock, disco, punk, rap and beyond.b. This course also invites students to create the first scene of their ownMINI-POP-MUSICAL!c. It also invites the student to utilize short self-made podcasts and videos as weekly assignments. Unless they’d rather write papers.This Course Asks a Few Questions:What can we learn about race, religion, class, gender, sexuality, immigration and capitalism, by comparing how…