New grad course “Race and Sound” offered Spring 2020
Dr. Louis Chude-Sokei, Professor of English and George and Joyce Wein Chair in African American Studies is teaching an innovative new graduate class in Spring for GRS and CFA. The course, CAS AA 500/EN 740/CFA MH 854 is titled “Race and Sound”.
Description: Music has long been a central site for the production of racial meanings, and a myriad of cultural and social movements have depended on relationships between, say, Black peoples and music in order to make specific political claims, from the condemnatory to the liberationist. However, it is only recently that sound itself has been identified as a privileged sphere for the historical consideration and construction of race. This recent turn is the focus of this class. We will engage not only contemporary critical work that focuses on those intimacies and their intersections with other concerns such as media, technology, gender, migration and sexuality, but also historical materials that make that former work possible.