More details on our summer offerings: doctoral student Pete Williams will be teaching AMS 100, which he calls the "popular music edition":
This course will introduce you to four major topics common to American Studies—nation, culture, difference, and power—as they relate to American popular music, past and present. Our studies of jazz, rap, country, rock, reggae, banda, punk, and other music will highlight the ways America is, and has always been, a continual negotiation among disparate voices, an interplay of dominant and marginal sounds that produces both harmony and discord. We’ll look at the many ways music plays into struggles over just what America is and just who is an American. You’ll be asked to participate through discussion, readings, short writing assignments, and a group project.
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