During the 2021-2022 academic year, we will teach courses that explore the broad range of what Black Music can mean, including jazz history and practice, Black music history, sonic design by Black art composers, and multimedia expression including Black music.
As we convene our Humanities Unbounded workshops, we will engage the undergraduate and graduate students in developing a future set of courses that address a new, Black-music-inclusive academic frontier which allows for innovative ways to achieve mastery of musical practice and scholarship. Previously-established courses taught during 2022-2023 will also highlight salient connections to the Black Music Lab themes and events.
These courses include:
MUSIC 133S/AAAS 109S/CULANTH 133S: African Mbira Music: An Experiential Learning Class
MUSIC 132L/DANCE 132L: African Dance Percussion
Writing 101: ¡La gozadera!: Music/ Dance/ Emotion [Sarah Towne]
MUSIC 101 Djembe Class & Afro-Cuban Percussion [Bradley Simmons]
MUSIC 139/AAAS 139: History of Rock: Rhythm & Blues and Rock & Roll to Indie Rock and Hip-Hop [Nicholas Stoia]
MUSIC 140/AAAS 140: Introduction to Jazz [Andrew Waggoner]
MUSIC 145 Hip-Hop/Rap Music Appreciation [Francis Roberts]
MUSIC 149 Motown and American Soul Music [Anthony Kelley and Mark Anthony Neal]
MUSIC190S: Black Atlantic Music [Jonathan Henderson]
MUSIC 249 Hollywood Film Music [Jacqueline Waeber]
DANCE 132L African Dance Percussion [Ava LaVonne Vinesett], Cross-listed with MUSIC132L
AAAS 325S Hip Hop Production
AAAS 422S: Music and The Black Radical Imagination [Deonte Harris]
MUSIC 690S: Composition Seminar: Double Consciousness: Perspectives on Composition in Black
Music and Poetry [Stephen Jaffe and Tsitisi Jaji]
LS770: The Experience of Music [Thomas Brothers]
