MUSIC-257/357 Music and the Black Arts Movement
An examination of the function of music in the Black Arts Movement in the 1960s and 1970s, analyzing how music paralleled literature, drama, and visual art. The course draws connections between earlier forms of Afro-modernism in the Harlem Renaissance and demonstrates how musicians engaged in social activism by protesting systemic racism and white supremacy. The course considers Larry Neal’s theory of the Black Aesthetic and Robert L. Douglas’ theory of multidominant elements as lenses for interdisciplinary analysis. Includes a study of musicians who engaged in political activism during the Black Arts Movement and the Movement’s influence on early hip-hop artists such as Public Enemy and Poor Righteous Teachers.
Standard Course (40)
Credits
1
Cross Listed Courses
AFRST-257/357