AFRST-114/214 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, Janelle Monáe, and Kendrick Lamar. Topics include appropriation, identity, power, race, reception, religion, representation, style, and tokenism. While students are not required to read Western music notation, technical knowledge and methodical analysis of music concepts in audio and video material will be studied and applied.
Standard Course (40)
Credits
1
Cross Listed Courses
MUSIC-114/214
Notes
MUSIC-214 has an additional independent project. Registration at the 200-level only with instructor’s permission. SSIH applies to the 200-level only. Open to Seniors.