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CMPL 440 - Music, Orality & Literature

FC ARHU CD
4 credits
This course explores the long-standing relationship between verbal art and music in high art, popular, and folk traditions. We will consider: how musical paradigms shape literary aesthetics, song and identity, improvisation in music and verbal art, Romanticism and the dissonance of Modernity in literature and music, the relationship between popular song and poetry, tradition and innovation in oraliture, models of performance in literature and music. Examples drawn from Spanish, Latin American, and U.S. Latino/a traditions. Taught in Spanish.
Prerequisites & Notes: A 300 level course in Spanish beyond HISP 304.
This course is cross-listed with HISP 440


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