What makes particular musics in Latin American and the Caribbean
sound African?  Does that heritage reside in the music and dance or
with those who practice them?  Do other cultural influences make
these musical practices less African?  What have been the
contributions of people of African descent the development of Latin
American and Caribbean music?  This course will explore the answers
to these questions through a series of case studies from Belize,
Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, The Dominican Republic, Ecuador,
Guatemala, Haiti, Nicaragua, Peru, Puerto Rico, and Uruguay.  Along
the way we will examine the primary ways in which musicians,
listeners and scholars writing about music have come to think about
the relationship between the concepts of blackness, diasporic
identity, and music-making.

Fulfills COLL Social & Historical