Course Description

MUS 028: Introduction to African American Music
Fall 2018

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 

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