With Caleb Westby, Osher National Resource Center (NRC) at Northwestern University
Jazz is a storied and complicated genre within the landscape of American popular music. Over the course of six weeks, we'll evaluate a variety of different artists, subgenres, and songs through the lens of social activism and protest. During the first week, we'll examine what core components are necessary to make a genre or song "protest music." Once we have established our criteria, we'll take a deep dive into all sorts of subgenres of jazz to find examples of social protest through swing. Our course will cover a wide variety of artists, but will focus especially on the output of some of jazz's more socially active personalities such as Charles Mingus, Nina Simone, and Billie Holiday.
Sat., Oct. 7- Nov. 11 • 9-10:30 a.m.
Online
$65 • Class #: REGISTRATION IS CLOSED.
