Survey of African American Music

AAAD-A394

Course Description

A chronological survey of sacred and secular African American musical traditions in North America from the African past to the present. Emphasis placed on context for evolution, musical processes and aesthetics, interrelationships among genres and musical change, issues of gender, and music as resistance. Credit given for only one of AAAD-A 394, FOLK-E 394, or MUS-M 394.