Music
MUSC 3353: Music and the Racial Imagination
Lecture - 4 credits
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- Addresses the history of the concept of race, taken as a cultural construct and a lived reality, long used to justify social, economic, and political inequality.
- Examines the relationship between musical sound and processes of racialization, addressing this relationship through a series of select historical and contemporary case studies, alongside grounding texts drawn from critical race studies, gender and sexuality studies, and ethnomusicology and popular music studies.
- Explores how the construction and everyday lived experience of race influenced music production, performance, reception, and analysis and how categories of race have been represented and questioned through the sonic and embodied acts of performers.
Addresses the history of the concept of race, taken as a cultural construct and a lived reality, long used to justify social, economic, and political inequality. Show more.