ClassInfo - Fall 2020 Anthropology Classes

Fall 2020 | ANTH 1914W Section 001: From "O Brother Where Art Thou?" to "12 Years a Slave": American Cinema and American Roots Music (34211)

Instructor(s): Gloria Goodwin Raheja
Class Component:: Discussion
Credits:: 3 Credits
Grading Basis:: Student Option
Instructor Consent:: No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:: Completely Online
Class Attributes:: UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Freshman Seminar
Online Course
Enrollment Requirements:: Freshman and FRFY
Times and Locations:: Regular Academic Session

09/08/2020 - 12/16/2020

Wed 01:30PM - 04:00PM

Off Campus

UMN REMOTE
Enrollment Status:: Closed (20 of 20 seats filled)

Course Catalog Description:: This seminar focuses on the ways in which popular culture (movies and other visual media) presents and comments upon southern American "roots" music. Although the music had deep roots in the American past, it also underwent dramatic transformations with the coming of industrial capitalism to the South and as a result of the commercial recording process itself, especially in the 1920s. This music continues to shape popular music today, and it continues to be a focus of cinematic attention. In this seminar we will focus on three sets of issues. First, we will consider the music in terms of the historical contexts that shaped it. Second, we will consider the question of how popular cinema and documentary films interpret (in sometimes problematic ways) this music, and what the politics of those representations might be. Third, we will attempt to understand musical genres and the movies in which they are featured in relation to the production of race, class and gender, and the experience of inequality in the United States.
Class Notes:: This course is completely online in a synchronous format. The course will meet online at the scheduled times.
Class Description:: Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
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