MSC 325 - From Flappers to Rappers: Women, Gender, and Race in Popular Music

1 semester, 3 credits-

Students learn about and experience music by white, black, and brown women involved in popular music as performers, songwriters, and singers from the 1920s to the present. The course emphasizes issues such as gender identity, gender-bending, sexual orientation, ethnicity, and institutions of control in popular music. Prerequisite: Not open to first-year students.