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MUH 239: History Of Jazz: After 1950
3 credits
This course is a comprehensive survey of jazz styles and trends that developed after 1950, beginning with Hard Bop, moving through the Avant Garde, and leading into current developments in jazz. Seminal figures and works in jazz of these decades will be examined within their socio-historical framework. (Distribution Reqs:Arts)
Learning Goals
Students will achieve an awareness and an appreciation for the roots,traditions, and broadly framed evolution of Jazz Music by exploring, inchronolgy, highlghts of the recorded legacies of the primary innovators.The impact of these classic recordings on the evolution of the art, as wellas the multiplicity of stylistic tendencies set in motion, will be discussedand related to, where appropriate, the socio-historical context of the era.
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Sections Offered: Summer 2025, Summer II |
| History Of Jazz: After 1950 |
| 0196-239-012 |
S. Zak |
Jul 7 - Aug 10 |
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Online |
3 |
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Sections Offered: Spring 2025 |
| History Of Jazz: After 1950 |
| 0196-239-001 |
S. Litroff |
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Mon/Wed |
2:25 pm - 3:40 pm |
GC - PAC 216 |
3 |
This Course is Filled to Capacity |