The Music Department is pleased to announce that MUSI 1003, Popular Music and Diversity in American Society, will be offered at multiple UConn campuses this summer. It will be offered in both Summer Session 1 and Summer Session 2 at the Storrs campus; the session 2 class will in addition feature both regular and Honors sections. The course will also be offered at the Greater Harford Campus in Session I. 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 close to students' everyday experience, 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 dates, times, and registration go to: summersession.uconn.edu
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 more information, contact: Alain Frogley, Music Department at 860-486-4783/alain.frogley@uconn.edu