MUSCLG 164

Selected Topics in African American Popular Music of 1960s

Musicology · 5 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

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Intensive discussion of developments in post-World War II African American popular music, with special attention to musical achievements of Motown Records, Stax, and other rhythm and blues, funk, and soul music centers of production. Relationships between musical forms and cultural issues of 1960s, including Civil Rights Movement, counterculture, black nationalism, capitalism, and separatism, and larger dimensions of African American experience as mediated through groove-based music. Credit for both courses 64 and 164 not allowed.

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Enforced corequisite: attendance, but not enrollment, in course 64 lecture.

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