MUS 248 - Music & Race

Course unit(s): 1
Meets GAR: Meets general academic requirement DE.
This class uses music as a lens to interrogate the ways race and racial hierarchies are constructed, reified, or challenged in transnational contexts. Traditions studied in the course may include Afro-diasporic traditions associated with resistance to racism and colonialism in both national and global contexts (jazz, soul, funk, hip-hop, maracatu, reggae), works and styles that cross and problematize racially-coded generic boundaries (“symphonic jazz,” Peking-Western opera fusions like Tan Dun’s The First Emperor, Babatunde Akinboboye’s “hip-hopera”), and the works of minoritized composers within Western concert music.