LAPI 934 The Blues

Division of Liberal Arts

3 credits 45.0 hours
900 level undergraduate course

This course examines African-American social and cultural history at the crossroads of folklore, literacy narrative, and politics as it is reflected in and expressed by the musical idiom of the blues. Drawing from folk traditions, song, historical texts, documentary film, recorded and live music, dramatic literature, and dance, the course will apply interdisciplinary and ethnographic modes of analysis to interpret modern American cultural and social history.

Prerequisites LACR*210 or one HUMS course

This course is not repeatable for credit.