Mar 29, 2024  
2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
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FAMU 200 - Special Topics- Black Music from Outer Space


Credits: (3)
Designed to supplement regular offerings in music history by permitting the study of topics of special interest suggested by faculty or students.

A survey of afro futurist artists whose music simultaneously drew on the music of Africa’s past while anticipating a cosmic future.  This course in popular musicology will contextualize these artists within larger trends in music, society and popular culture.  Readings will include texts on the civil rights movement, the history of science fiction, black music, and black science fiction.  Concepts of identity, liberation, and framing will be discussed in the music of Sun Ra, Herbie Hancock, George Clinton (Parliament) and of course Janelle Monáe.  (As needed)



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