BLST 008C. Performing Resistance: Black Music and Protest in the African Diaspora

Cross-listed as MUSI 006D.
This course explores African diasporic music as it’s been used in performative acts of resistance and protest in the United States, the Caribbean, and South America. We will consider instances when music and movement have been deployed in response to political, economic, and social tyranny in the past and in the present.
Humanities.
1 credit.
Eligible for GLBL-Paired; PEAC.
Spring 2028 Stewart.
Catalog chapter: Black Studies.
Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/black-studies

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