Overview
Description
Chronological study of jazz music and musicians with emphasis on directed listening.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall and Summer
Terms
fall, summer
Core
CO7, CO10
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- identify the wide range of musical styles and subgenres that make up the jazz soundscape.
- discuss the complex interaction of music cultures in jazz, and the role this interaction has played in reshaping notions of individual, ethnic, and national identity.
- articulate how and why jazz’s location on a “cultural hierarchy” has changed in North America over the past century.
- explain how historical events, new technologies, and shifting cultural values influence – and are influenced by – new jazz styles.