Course Description
Summary
This course will study the African-American Struggle for Freedom and Civil Rights in the United States through the music that emerged, accompanied and embodied this journey. Using the award winning documentary “Eyes on the Prize” series as our primary text, we will focus on the Civil Rights Movement, 1950-1970s, singing the songs, and exploring audio and video recordings, songbook publications, selected readings and more. Author Reiland Rabaka states,“The mixture of music and politics emerging out of the Civil Rights Movement is an incredibly important site and source of spiritual rejuvenation, social organization, political education, and cultural transformation”. Indeed this journey can both inform and transform us as we look back and move forward.
