MUL 2231 - Music of Africa and the Diaspora

Credits: 4
An exploration of the European and African roots of African-American music prior to and at the beginning of North American colonization. In this course students study early European and African musical cultures as well as the synthesis and tensions of the two brought together by the slave trade in the United States.
McDaniel Plan: Creative Expression, International Nonwestern, Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding.