COMM 266 - The Blues

4 Credits

1 Units

This course will consider the social, political, and cultural record of black country music styles, i.e. ‘the blues,’ that initially takes shape in the 1890s as a culturally through the efforts of a burgeoning recording industry. We will look to analyze and demythologize many of the pre- and ill-conceived assumptions regarding its development, diffusion, and role as a chronicler of post-Reconstruction African American life by initially examining its place in the rural and agrarian American South before it pivots toward its more modern iterations in Chicago and other industrialized and urban northern and western settings resulting from The Great Migration.

LinC Requirement: U2

Credit Type Code: Letter Grade