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LITPA-2000-31: Music and Literature

Fall 2020

Subject: Literary and Performing Arts Studies
Type: Seminar
Delivery Mode: Online
Level: Undergraduate

Course Dates: September 02, 2020 — December 15, 2020
Meetings: Wed 12:00-03:00PM, Online - HS-2
Instructor: Steve Dickison

Units: 3.0
Enrolled: 13/15 Closed

Description:

LITPA 2000 courses introduce students to the study of literature or the performing arts, emphasizing analysis of both particular works and of the range of genres, periods and traditions. Frequent reading and writing assignments will be made.COURSE DESCRIPTIONWe'll focus on a roughly chronological path following lines of study based in African-American traditions of music and writing. We will effectively be reading American history through the sonic lens" of those who make music and those who write in relation to that music. Subject areas of our study and reference could involve blues and early jazz, the emergence of modern gospel, rhythm and blues, post-WWII "jazz" liberated from early nomenclature, soul, funk, and hiphop, all of these original North American modes of music-making, with injections from Caribbean and African sources. Our research will make use of multiple written and recorded works. We'll view select film and video, focused on the music and musicians. And, at every step we'll attend to the music, and our own practices of listening, learning to read what we hear-and to hear what we read. A collective experiment in asking us to listen with difference, the seminar will attempt to open up a renewed orientation to the world we live in by way of a developing awareness of its music.

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