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MUS 489a03 - Black Music: Africa to Afrofuturism

Department: Music

Description: This class explores the roots and routes of Black American music. It examines events that shaped spirituals, blues, jazz, rhythm and blues, hip hop, call & response, interlocking polyphonies, and improvisation, and how the music fosters repair, affirmation, and futurities for a people whose past has been deliberately rubbed out.

Credit Hours: 3

Graduate Level Course: This course is approved for graduate credit

This course has no upcoming offerings. Please contact the department if you have questions about when this will be offered.