ANTH 237 - Social Mirrors: Race, Class, and Sexuality in Popular Music

Semester Offered: First Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 Credits
Attribute: 4SS, CD

This course will examine how music cultures are used as constructive tools to address racial and class marginalization, and how they inform representations of gender and sexuality. Reggae and hip-hop are used as case studies. Through this exploration, students will also analyze how music and performance might impact listeners through contradicting ways. For example: providing a sense of esteem and empowerment, but perhaps also perpetuating gender and racial stereotypes, and violence. As an overarching theme, the course will consider the ways in which popular cultural forms are reflections of society at large and, therefore, microcosms through which to interpret it.
Enrollment Limit: 25
Instructor: Sabia Mcoy-Torres