MUSC1160 — Music and Protest
MUSC 1160 - Music and Protest MUSC 1160 - Music and Protest 3 Credits ?Builds on the classic mantra “Which side are you on?”. From the Ancient Greeks to Green Day’s “American Idiot” to Black Lives Matter, music has served as a powerful medium for protest. This course will explore the vast body of protest music from around the globe through the lenses of musical analysis, social movements and their critical theory, and social construction. Our attention will be focused on how selected regional musical genres and instruments serve to construct, dictate, and protestssues such as race identity, gender identity, community, heritage, and other social formations?. Major Content Areas Historical foundations of Music and Protest Music as a vehicle for communication Class structure and Music Music and Unions Global use of music for protest American Song Learning