Class covers ragtime, New Orleans jazz, swing, bebop, cool jazz, and avant-garde jazz, with special emphasis on Bird, Gillespie, Coltrane, Ellington, and Jelly Roll Morton. Race Records to Videos 3 credits Course offers a general survey of black music with major emphasis on significant music forms, styles, popular dances, and historical and sociological environments in the United States. Required student participation is integrated with lectures which are supplemented by films, demonstrations, live concerts, visiting artists, and listening assignments. Required student participation is integrated with lectures which are supplemented by films, demonstrations, live concerts, visiting artists, and listening assignments. Spirituals to Gospel 3 credits Course examines historical, cultural, and musical growth of folk music traditions that evolved into modern gospel music.
Emphasis is given to musical lyrics and folklore as literature in the oral tradition.
Required student participation is integrated with lectures which are supplemented by films, demonstrations, live concerts, visiting artists, and listening assignments. U.S. Musical Cross-Currents 3 credits Course offers a general survey of black music of the African Diaspora with major emphasis on significant forms, styles and historical and sociological environments in the Americas. Required student participation is integrated with lectures which are supplemented by films, demonstrations, live concerts, visiting artists, and listening assignments. For information about schedules, contact the Music Department of Columbia College .