MUS 028 • 4 Credits

CRN 43656: TR 1:10-2:30 PM, Music 105 • F 11:00-11:50 AM, Music 115

Instructor: Jean-Paul Bourelly, Department of Music

GE Credit: ACGH, AH, DD, VL, WE

An analysis through sound, composition, participation and film documentation, the art forms, humanity and modernity of African American musics. Topics include:

• Navigating the Jazz Impulse
• The Emergence of the independent producer 
• Swing to Bling, Be Bop to Hip Hop (and understanding of)
• A question of Soul, a vote for Funk?
• Existential Imagination – The Avant Garde
• Traditions, Reconstruction, Innovation 
• The Black Atlantic 2018
• Groove Aspirations and Resistance 1960-2018