Music Performance and Social Activism 1

PS-533

This course explores musical performance as a tool for social change and civic activism. Artists in all countries and all genres have used music to comment on, provoke, respond to, resist, and promote social change throughout history. Through this course, students analyze important historical social movements and their music, from ancient societies through the 21st centuries. Students learn how the latest evidence of music's power for change and therapeutic benefits underscores its importance as a tool for societal betterment. Students synthesize the connections between music and social change and apply this synthesis to current issues of importance to them, as well as to their performances, especially those in community outreach events.

Credits
1
Prerequisites
None
Required Of
CPGJ graduate students
Electable By
CPGJ graduate students
Semesters Offered
Fall
Location
Boston
Department
CPRF
Course Chair
Marco Pignataro
Taught By
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