You will come to know the music and the personalities of jazz titans such as Louis Armstrong, John Coltrane, Billie Holiday, and Charlie Parker. And we will tell you the story of jazz: how it fits into American history, and more specifically Black history. We will offer guides about how to listen to the music. We will explain what music improvisation is, and how it works. In this class, we will teach you about jazz. Someone asks, "What is jazz?"" And the answer is, "If you have to ask, you willl never know." But that's no longer true. We will experiment with group performance exploring ideas about improvisation and uniting the aesthetic sphere with the broader sphere of social life and collective engagement. We will explore listening in daily life from many angles that include everyday field research, reading, writing, and discussion. Listening and reflecting on daily experience, then applying that refined sensibility, leads us into interactive communities that can create things together. This course starts with the idea that engaging interactively - honing our ability to listen (as most broadly defined) sets us up to be involved fully in the life around us. MUSI 2110 Listening to Everyday Life: Community, Improvisation, Play(ing) Study of the rudiments of music and training in the ability to read music. Prerequisite: No previous knowledge of music required.
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