>Message from Professor Claudia Melrose, Dance:
>
>EXCITING NEW LECTURE COURSE! ! !
>
>CROSS CULTURAL FORMS: WEST AFRICAN MUSIC/DANCE IN THE AMERICAS
>
>3 CREDITS, FULFILLS ETHNIC STUDIES REQUIREMENT
>
> >From Durbar to Carnival, From Rumba to Salsa, From Hi-Life to Hip-Hop,
>
>This course will explore the rich music and dance heritage of several West
>African peoples in the context of their dynamic historical, artistic and
>political cultures prior to and including the intense European expansion.
>We will consider the aesthetics and values of West African cultures as
>reflected in their dance, art, ritual and study how these continued, and
>yet were changed by the powerful forces of the Diaspora experience such as
>slavery, oppression, and enforced conversion in nearly all aspects of
>human life.
>
>The complex social, cultural, economic and political interactions that
>occurred in the New World with the radical confluence of Europeans,
>Africans and indigenous peoples, created new hybrid forms of music and
>dance whose vitality and endurance has irrevocably influenced music and
>dance throughout the entire world.  As we move from West Africa to Cuba,
>Puerto Rico, Haiti, Trinidad and the United States we will ask how these
>new forms developed? How did the unique makeup of each country's mix of
>peoples and the unique dynamics of each country's social complexities and
>processes create unique rhythms to provide means of resistance, survival
>and identity for those dancing them?
>
>Classes will consist of lectures, discussion, videos and guest
>speakers/performers.
>The course is cross-listed this summer with different department workshop
>numbers:
>
>AfroAmerican Studies  675    Call #74232
>Music                           497    Call #74226
>Dance                           560    Call #74220
>(sophomores to grad students)
>
>Summer 4 weeks:  May 28 * June 21, 2002
>9:30-12:00 M-F
>
>Call 262-1641 for further information

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