Nov 21, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Bulletin 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Bulletin
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MUSC 337 - Music, Race, and Ethnicity: (subtitle)


2024-2025 Catalog Year

Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0


An examination of the relationship between historical, cultural, and political contexts, notions of race and ethnicity, and resulting artistic production. Students will engage with popular music, jazz, fusion, as well as classical genres. They will analyze works drawing from a variety of disciplines including critical theory and music analysis in order to understand the cultural work music and musical activities do in social contexts. Possible topics include critical theories of race and musical production, the history of hip-hop, music in immigrant communities, the history of jazz, and a survey course on theories of race, politics, and music by African Americans.

Prerequisite(s): MUSC 227  or MUSC 232  
Repeatable: May be taken twice for credit
Offered: Regularly though not on a rotating basis






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