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Jul 01, 2025
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Fall 2025 Graduate Catalog
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AFS 541 - Music and Race: Black Music (Cross Cultural Study of Music)
This seminar will examine how certain widely held conceptualizations about race (and in some instances ethnicity) are articulated, reinforced, or challenged in music making and consumption, on the one hand, and in scholarship about music on the other. Writings on race and music have tended to be about “black” culture(s). In this course we will critique this focus and the construct of black music in great detail. The course requires extensive readings on these topics; listening to musical examples (in-depth knowledge of music theory is not necessary); vigorous class discussion and written reaction papers; a final research paper and class presentation. Students may choose to explore other aspects of music and race besides black music in their final papers (for example, how Orientalism has been constituted in music and musical criticism and scholarship).
3 credits
Grading Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.)
Required Permission of advisor required.
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