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Apr 29, 2024
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ARFA 830 - Music and America3 credits
Music has played a major role in American culture for centuries. During the nineteenth century American songs and compositions began to take on a distinctive tone. By the end of the century, America was asserting itself in the arts. The Broadway musical became a major center for compositional creativity. Jazz spread from New Orleans up the Mississippi and across the country. American dances in the twentieth century set world styles and fads. Film, and later to a less central degree television, became a medium for musical expression. American composers filled concert halls with their music. American popular music and musicians became world stars in jazz, swing, country, folk, rock & roll, rock, hip-hop, rap and musical theater. This course will explore various topics relating American music to American culture. In doing so, it will draw upon the wide diversity of American composers such as Stephen Foster, Louis Moreau Gottshalk, Amy Beach, Scott Joplin, Duke Ellington, George Gershwin, Aaron Copland, Florence Price, Leonard Bernstein, John Cage, Laurie Anderson, Bright Sheng, Anthony Davis, Meredith Monk, and others.
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