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2016-2017 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2016-2017 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

BLS 242 - African-American Music History I

Credits 3
Lecture / 3 hours per week
A survey of African-American music from its African origins to 1940. The course introduces the student to the vast and rich expanses of black musical culture from a stylistic, cultural, and socio-historical perspective, with a focus on jazz. Cross-listed with MUS 342
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