The Rhetoric of African American Music

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Examines how African American musical forms?spanning Negro Spirituals to Neo-Soul?function as persuasive and liberatory texts that articulate the lived experiences, struggles, and hopes of Black communities in the United States. Central to the course is the examination of African American music as a rhetoric of survival, a rhetoric of resistance, a rhetoric of joy, and a rhetoric of transformation?voices raised not just in art, but in argument.