Amer Music & the Roots of Cool

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This course addresses the influence of music in everyday living - the impact of music in society as well as social problems expressed through music. With emphasis on the American experience, special attention is paid to popular cultural and mass cultural forms of music - especially soul, jazz, rhythm and blues and country - as well as how people use music to claim a social identity and to establish social boundaries between themselves and others. Course Attributes: Africana Studies Minor, Solidarity & Kinship Flag, Social Sci Elect/Integrations College of Arts & Sciences Race, Intersect, Gender & Soci