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Nov 12, 2024
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College Bulletin 2014-2015 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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MUSI 003B. Jazz and the Trans-Atlantic African Diaspora
From its earliest formations, jazz music has been inherently transcultural and particularly elemental to the cultural identity of individuals and communities identifying with the African Diaspora. This course posits improvisation-that is, encountering and working around borders while reacting to the impeding and facilitating possibilities they present-as a necessary and highly potent condition of cultural liminality. Accordingly, this course suggests that musical and cultural improvisatory performances can carve out discursive space within the socio-political systems that marginalize these communities. Drawing on the methodologies and scholarship of social sciences and the performing arts, we will explore this dynamic through interdisciplinary case studies in the Trans-Atlantic African Diaspora, with attention to local interpretations of global jazz culture and fusions of local music with jazz performance aesthetics. Also, the course will critically engage with the politics of collective identity, exploring how communities drawn together through a common genre marker or diasporic affiliation can themselves reproduce marginalizing hierarchies.
1 credit.
Not offered 2014-2015.
http://www.swarthmore.edu/music
Music and Dance: Music
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