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"Swing Low, Sweet Chariot", "R-E-S-P-E-C-T", "Changes", "Another Brick in the Wall", "This is America", "Dear Mr. President", "Rent", and so many more. Art, specifically music, has historically been one of the most popular and accessible kinds of media used to address political, social, cultural, or personal issues. In this Proseminar, we will consider various genres of music and use them as the backdrop for cultural investigation into their historical context. Some of these might be: slavery and racial injustices, the HIV/AIDS-epidemic in the 1980s, reflections of a changing climate, anti-war-, feminist-, and other social-justice movements such as BLM. Through this (musical) investigation we will gain insight into some of the many key moments in US history.
Readings will be made available on Stud.IP. |
