Advanced Vocal and Instrumental Instruction. Music major with upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Upper-division Music majors may advance enroll. All other students may not advance enroll, but they may enroll with instructor's consent. Upper-division Music majors will receive letter grades only.
Course is repeatable and offered as demand indicates.
See note regarding fees under Major Requirements section. A Social and Cultural History. Examines the development of jazz from the late 1800s through the 1950s, taking into account its sources in the black religious tradition dating back to slavery. The place of the work song and Negro Spiritual is examined. The role of dance and the influence of parades, processions, and funerals on the development of jazz is investigated.