| Title: | Black Dance |
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| Course Section Number: | BLS-270-03 |
| Department: | Black Studies |
| Description: | What is the connection between spiritual dance and twerking? They are both dances inspired by African rhythmic and aesthetic movements. African and African Diasporic dance traditions are deployed for a range of ritual and cultural expressions. Spiritual movements in worship are meant to free the body from the mundane world bracketed by time and space while stylized movements in the club and on music videos are evocative of a worldly freedom. What is the source of these movements and gestures? How are we to make sense of the various religious and social articulation of Black bodies in the past and today? This course will explore Black dance across history and geography and at the intersections of race, class, gender and our modern hyper-media economy. Students will be able to trace the history of Black people through dance and critically engage dance for its social, political and economic valences. |
| Credits: | 1.00 |
| Start Date: | January 16, 2023 |
| End Date: | May 6, 2023 |
| Meeting Information: |
01/17/2023-05/04/2023 Lecture Tuesday, Thursday 08:00AM - 09:15AM, Center Hall, Room 215
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| Faculty: | Lake, Tim |
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