Folk-F351 American Regional Music
Course # 6547
2nd 4 week Session
Daily 10:20 am – 12:30 pm
Swain West 103
Fulfills CASE Arts & Humanities, Diversity in the United
States
This course will examine a wealth of North American musical
communities and styles. These include bluegrass, tex-mex, blues, polka, string
band, shapenote, cajun, zydeco, mariachi, klezmer, gospel and steelband
music. In addition, we will explore issues of ethnicity, style, revival,
and commercialization. The goals of the course are threefold: to develop a
familiarity with the diversity of American regional and ethnic musics, to
understand the history of stylistic borrowing and innovation that has created
these musics, and to examine the roles these musics play in the lives of the
people who make it. No musical background is necessary.
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