FOLK-F 316 CARIBBEAN ARTS AND CULTURES (3 CR.)
Explores traditional forms of verbal expression, music, dance, and visual art in Anglophone, Hispanophone, and Francophone countries in the Caribbean. Examines art forms in relation to specific historical and social contexts and broader processes of colonialism, social stratification, creolization, urbanization, nationalism, and decolonization in the region.
1 classes found
Spring 2024
Component | Credits | Class | Status | Time | Day | Facility | Instructor |
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LEC | 3 | 11642 | Open | 11:30 a.m.–12:45 p.m. | TR | C2 203 | Dirksen R |
Regular Academic Session / In Person
LEC 11642: Total Seats: 30 / Available: 1 / Waitlisted: 0
Lecture (LEC)
- COLL (CASE) Global Civ & Cultr
- COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inq
- Topic: Caribbean Music, Sacred Ecologies, and the Environment
- COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inquiry credit
- COLL (CASE) Global Civ & Culture credit
Sustainability, green living, and climate change are heated topics in today¿s intersecting arenas of science, economics, and politics. These debates are often positioned as relating to new global concerns, but ecological and environmental awareness has long cut to the core of many Indigenous and Afro-Caribbean musical cultures. This course will consider the collisions of cultures, ideologies, histories, sounds, and daily experiences that have become part of conversations about humanity¿s uses of the environment. We will learn about ecomusicology and acoustic ecology that explore connections between sound, music, and the environment as well as sacred ecologies that tie religious beliefs and metaphysics with environmentalist practices and scientific perspectives on the natural world. And we will evaluate attempts to change the world¿s trajectory for the better, ranging from the United Nations¿ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to local, community-led responses that are frequently grounded in sound, music, and art. Our primary materials for study will be expressive culture (literature, film, visual arts, dance, traditional healing practices, and, especially, music) in Haiti, Jamaica, Cuba, and Taíno and Maroon communities from across the Antilles. This course will be conducted as an upper-level lecture-seminar.