HNRS 2302 - Civil Rights & Jazz, 1970-75

This course places special emphasis on American jazz form as a crucial influence and metaphor for the very rhythm and experience of modernity as it explores the interrelations between literature, music, and American culture through the music of Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, and Duke Ellington and others.

Credits: 3 hours

Notes: This course satisfies General Education Area III: United States: culture and Issues.