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Advent Semester—2025
Jun 21, 2025 |
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| MUSC 143 - Move on up a Little Higher: The History of Gospel Music |
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African American Gospel music represents a unique and powerful tradition of American music and culture. This course begins with the foundations of Gospel music as represented in African American spirituals and blues along with its religious roots in the Great Awakenings and the later Pentecostal movement. Subsequent topics include the post-Civil War Jubilee choral style, Gospel's "golden age" of 1945-55, the advent of black-run radio programs, record companies, and a performance circuit for Gospel singers. Gospel music from 1960 to the present is examined bio-chronologically, discussing important songwriters, singers, and the music's significant stylistic changes. As a useful overture to study students may pursue in upper-level music courses, this course also introduces terminology required for musical analysis, including mode, meter, and form.
4.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Final Examination, Lecture/Seminar Performing and Visual Arts Division Music Department Course Attributes: African American Track, G2, Music--History & Culture Track, Music--Popular Track, Music--Performance Track, WGS - Race/Ethnicity in US |
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