MUSIC-214 Black Voices in Song

Explores the musical styles and cultural contexts of the vocal music of selected Black composers, arrangers, songwriters, and performers. Works include the Renaissance motets of Vincente Lusitano, cantatas of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, African-American spirituals, gospel music, Motown Records’ greatest hits, protest songs, non-idiomatic choral repertoire, and the music of artists such as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Whitney Houston, Beyoncé, and Janelle Monáe. Topics include appropriation, identity, power, race, reception, religion, representation, style, and tokenism.

Maximum Enrollment

Standard Course (40)

(Social Structural and Institutional Hierarchies.)

Offered

Fall

Notes

Music 214 has an additional independent project. Registration at the 200-level only with instructor’s permission. Open to Seniors.