3 credits
Spring 2025 Lecture HonorsUpper Division
Jazz artists "speak to each other in the language of music." In Jazz, we will explore the nature of this artistic conversation with many of its cultural influences, geographical variations, and temporal iterations. Throughout our time together we will interrogate varying facets of the social impact such a conversation facilitates. Furthermore, we will explore the musical language of jazz with its power to make collective performance stronger. And we will investigate the ways in which this artists' talk became the "talk of the town" and country as a medium through which people could break from dominant cultures. We will make sense of and process our journey by creating our own jazz ensemble, featuring the layered textures of our lives as inspiration for the note and lyric.
Learning Outcomes1Articulate jazz conceptually.
2Create connections between jazz and a democratic community.
3Represent jazz creatively.
Prerequisites
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