Black Music and Social Transformation (2023/2024: Semester 1 – Fall)

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Cursusdoel

After completing the course students are able to:
  1. Listen to musical examples and identify features that have cultural-political impact
  2. Connect concepts from aesthetics and decolonial theory to cultural (musical) historical sources
  3. Contextualize a musical case study in its historical, political and regional context
  4. Describe various genres of Afro-diasporic music and explain their historical impact
  5. Demonstrate listening, presenting, and intercultural communication skills
  6. Produce a publicly accessible presentation (concert) in connection with community/practitioners
  7. Explain how popular music relates to social movements, and sociological concepts such as collective identity and cultural capital
Description of assignment Assesses which course aims?
  1. Curated and annotated Spotify Playlist
  2. In class midterm exam
  3. Final concert
 1,3,5,7
1,2,3,4,7
3,4,5,6,7

Vakinhoudelijk

This course examines Black (Afro-diasporic) music and its impact on society in America and Europe. It reveals how Black Music functions as a form of cultural politics, a philosophy and a way of building identity and community. It shows how Afro-diasporic musical production has been a central force in political movements and social transformations from interwar anti-colonial activism to the Civil Rights campaigns. This has continued in the recent #BlackLivesMatter movement. In this course students engage with genres of music such as blues and spirituals, jazz, gospel, afro-futurist pop, and hip hop. We situate these genres in their historical context, listen and perform or practice them, and show how the music – both individual pieces and whole genres - make political and philosophical claims. This treatment of music serves as a form of critical thinking and engagement with scholarly traditions that give primacy to textual work. The course combines readings, historical case studies and biography, and music listening and making. It therefore enacts and models radically interdisciplinary approaches that connect text-based and embodied learning.

Format
The course pairs practice-based musical learning (embodied learning) with philosophical and historical reflections. In the workshop session each week we will use a classroom equipped for movement and music-making. We will put together a final concert.
The assignments for the course have been developed to support the interdisciplinary and engaged learning and learning objectives in the course. The first asks students to create an annotated spotify list that show how 3-5 songs/pieces of music are linked to social or intellectual transformation. For the second, students curate and produce a concert that showcases (one of) the themes of the course.

course coordinator and teacher: r.a.gillet@uu.nl

Werkvormen

UCU INT 2 course

Toetsing

Curated and annotated Spotify Playlist

Verplicht | Weging 30% | ECTS 2,25

Final concert

Verplicht | Weging 40% | ECTS 3

*midterm FEEDBACK*

Niet verplicht

2In class midterm exam

Verplicht | Weging 30% | ECTS 2,25

Ingangseisen en voorkennis

Ingangseisen

Je moet minimaal 30 punten van het bachelor programma hebben behaald

Voorkennis

One level 1 Humanities course.

Voertalen

  • Engels

Competenties

  • Internationale en interculturele oriëntatie
  • Interdisciplinariteit
  • Luisteren
  • Community based learning / community based research
  • Presenteren

Cursusmomenten

Gerelateerde studies

Tentamens

Er is geen tentamenrooster beschikbaar voor deze cursus

Verplicht materiaal

  • BOEK
    Eyerman, Ron, and Andrew Jamison. Music and Social Movements: Mobilizing Traditions in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Aanbevolen materiaal

  • BOEK
    Mitchell, Tony. Global Noise : Rap and Hip-Hop Outside the USA. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2001

Opmerkingen

Counts towards HUM or SSC major.

Coördinator

R.A. Gillett R.A.Gillett@uu.nl

Docenten

R.A. Gillett R.A.Gillett@uu.nl

Inschrijving

Let op: deze cursus is niet toegankelijk voor studenten van andere faculteiten, bijvakkers mogen zich dus niet inschrijven.

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