HIST 4631 Music, Memory, & Afr Diaspora

Prerequisite: HIST 2111 or HIST 2112. This is a course in the cultural history of the African diaspora, the construction of the Atlantic World, and the ways in which music was an important carrier and repository of the culture of peoples of African descent. Through music, lectures, film, and readings, we will explore the impact of the transatlantic slave trade through sound, and the ways in which the victims of this historical trauma reimagined and remade communal identities, and the ways this sociohistorical process has shaped diasporic cultures to the present day.