Apr 18, 2024

2017-2018 Scripps Catalog

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MUS 125 SC - Fight the Power: Music in L.A.

This course explores how music has been used by disenfranchised people in Los Angeles to propose counternarratives to American mainstream culture. By examining the social and cultural sources of rhythm and blues, punk, and hip-hop in Southern California, it will also look at how race, class, and gender affect the performance and production of popular music in the Southland.

Course Credit: 1.0
Offered: Every two years

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