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MUSC 383 Theatre and Music of Africa and the Diaspora Units: 3.00
An exploration of traditional African cultural forms including music, storytelling, mask work, and dance and how those roots are the foundation of contemporary music and theatre from Africa and the African Diaspora.
NOTE This course is also listed/offered as DRAM 383/3.0.
NOTE This course is also listed/offered as DRAM 383/3.0.
Learning Hours: 120 (36 Lecture, 84 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite Level 3 or above.
Exclusion DRAM 383/3.0; MUTH 329/3.0 (Topic Title: Theatre and Music of Africa and the African Diaspora - Fall 2020).
Equivalency MUTH 375/3.0*.
Course Equivalencies: DRAM383, MUSC383, MUTH375/3.0*
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Identify the diversity of African musical forms through an introduction of several oral histories and dance styles.
- Connect these traditions across the continent of Africa, and also differentiate them from each other.
- Reflect upon what happened to these traditions because of the Atlantic Slave Trade, and identify what has emerged in the Americas (and elsewhere) since then.
- Examine contemporary drama and music as well as the generations-old musical, dance, and oral storytelling forms at their root.
- Synthesize their knowledge to demonstrate the interconnectedness of the past and the present, but also for the importance of music, dance, and drama to Afro-descendant people on the continent and in the diaspora.