MUSI 1003, Popular Music and Diversity in American Society, will be offered at both the Storrs and Hartford campuses in Summer Session 2 (July 15 – August 16). This 3-credit course satisfies requirements for both Content Area 1 (Arts and Humanities) and Content Area 4 (Diversity and Multiculturalism).
MUSI 1003 traces the history of a range of different musical genres, including rock, hip-hop, EDM etc., and explores how musical sounds can embody complex issues of race, gender, and class that both establish and challenge cultural identities. What happens when hip-hop goes from subversive street music to a commodity promoted by multinational media conglomerates? Is the electric guitar really a phallic symbol? Why did middle-class audiences latch on to working-class songs in the 1960s folk movement? These are the kinds of questions that we address in this course.
NO prior musical training or knowledge is required: the course is open to everyone.
For further information please contact Dr Alain Frogley at alain.frogley@uconn.edu (Storrs) or Dr Heather de Savage at heather.desavage@uconn.edu (Hartford).For dates and registration go to:
https://summersession.uconn.edu
For more information, contact: Alain Frogley at alain.frogley@uconn.edu