PAS 24500 JAZZ IMAGINES AFRICA 3 Credit Hours

Students learn how to listen to jazz by exploring cultural and musical elements and gain an understanding of raw musical materials from West Africa, how they arrived in the western hemisphere through the "cultural memory" of Africans in bondage, and how those elements blended with materials from European music to inspire the development of jazz. Students also explore Caribbean "bush reggae," a precursor to what became reggae, which contains some of the same root elements as jazz.

Prerequisite: none.        

Schedule Type: Lecture

Contact Hours: 3 lecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter