HIST 429 - Jazz of the Americas

FC SSCI CD WADV

4 credits
This course takes new scholarship on the history of Afro-descended national genres of the Americas (jazz, son, samba, etc.) as a point of departure for reconsidering: the history of jazz and our understandings of “national” musical genres and practices; the meaning of music in the history of 20th-century constructions of race, nation, and myriad other identities (e.g., “Latin”); the political power of these musics; and the outsized economic power of the U.S. culture industry.