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 ProtestMusic as a vehicle for communication Class structure and Music Music and Unions Global use of music for protest American Song
Learning Outcomes
Demonstrate an appreciation and nuanced understanding of the long and important body of music and protest Display an understanding of the historical foundations of music and protest Demonstrate an ability to assess historical and contemporary social formations, social movements, and sociological theories through a general overview and study of several diverse socio-musical cultural issues via their relation to protest music, Synthesize patterns and apply critical thinking skills in order to improvise and construct (or deconstruct) a protest song or slogan for a fictional (or real) organzation in an appropriate style.
Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (MNTC) Goals
06 - Humanities/Fine Arts 08 - Global Perspective
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