Black Music of Two Worlds

AAAD-A112

Course Description

An exploration of the relationships among musics of West and Central African people and their descendants in the United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Emphasis placed on the conceptual and aesthetic continuities between musical expression in Old and New World contextsa uniformity which exists because of shared African cultural ancestry. Credit given for only one of AAAD A112, FOLK E112, or FOLK F112.