PMA 4964 - U.S. Popular Music & Racial Commonsense

(crosslisted) AMST 4990, MUSIC 4333

Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading.

Co-meets with PMA 6964.

C. Balance.

This course brings together the fields of sound, popular music, and performance studies in order to investigate how “racial common-sense”—a set of notions drawn from everyday experiences that naturalize race—has been constituted at various moments in U.S. history, from the mid-19th century to the present. (HTC)