American Music Concentration (AMMU)
The American Music concentration, open to all majors, brings together the most prominent strands of American music scholarship on campus and provides students with a framework for understanding the diverse musics and musical cultures of America.
Taking its inspiration from the multidisciplinary approaches characteristic of this emerging field, the concentration includes a gateway course surveying American musical history and genres; one course from a field or interdisciplinary area offering a critical perspective on American culture; three courses offering in-depth study of musical traditions essential to the American soundscape; one course in which detailed exploration of a single cultural site or perspective will deepen students' understanding of the importance of particular social institutions or circumstances shaping musical life; and a capstone research seminar in which students pursue individual projects. No previous musical experience is required of concentrators.
Requirements for the Concentration
Seven courses are required. In addition to the gateway and capstone courses, students must complete one course each from Groups I and III, and three courses from Group II.
Gateway Course:
MUSC 126 America's Music
Group I: Developing Critical Perspectives
AFAM 115 An Introduction to African American Culture, Practice, and Religion (not offered in 2015-2016)
AMST 115 Introduction to American Studies: Placing Identities
AMST 115 Introduction to American Studies: Immigration and American Culture
CAMS 110 Introduction to Cinema and Media Studies
HIST 120 Rethinking the American Experience: American History, 1607-1865 (not offered in 2015-2016)
HIST 121 Rethinking the American Experience: American Social History, 1865-1945
HIST 122 U.S. Women's History to 1877
HIST 123 U.S. Women's History Since 1877
HIST 125 African American History I
HIST 126 African American History II (not offered in 2015-2016)
MUSC 110 The Materials of Music
MUSC 204 Musical Structures
RELG 140 Religion and American Culture (not offered in 2015-2016)
SOAN 110 Introduction to Anthropology
SOAN 111 Introduction to Sociology
WGST 110 Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies
Group II: The Soundtracks of America (at least one course must be at the 200-level or above)
AMST 214 Music in the 1970s (not offered in 2015-2016)
AMST 268 Music in American Social Movements (not offered in 2015-2016)
CAMS 188 Rock 'n' Roll in Cinema (not offered in 2015-2016)
CAMS 242 Sound and Music in TV and New Media
MUSC 111 Classical Music: An Introduction (not offered in 2015-2016)
MUSC 115 Music and Film (not offered in 2015-2016)
MUSC 120 Introduction to Opera
MUSC 129 Rock on Record (not offered in 2015-2016)
MUSC 130 The History of Jazz
MUSC 131 The Blues From the Delta to Chicago (not offered in 2015-2016)
MUSC 132 Golden Age of R and B
MUSC 136 History of Rock
MUSC 141 Global Popular Music (not offered in 2015-2016)
MUSC 236 Rock Lab
MUSC 243 Musical Cultures of the Caribbean (not offered in 2015-2016)
MUSC 245 Music of Africa
MUSC 247 The U.S. Folk Music Revival
MUSC 304 Songwriters and Songwriting (not offered in 2015-2016)
MUSC 305 Seminar in American Music (not offered in 2015-2016)
MUSC 306 Seminar in American Music (not offered in 2015-2016)
MUSC 307 Music in Childhood, Youth, and Adolescent Culture (not offered in 2015-2016)
MUSC 312 Romantic Music
MUSC 332 Motown (not offered in 2015-2016)
MUSC 333 The Beatles
Group III: Sites of the American Soundtrack
AMST 225 Beauty and Race in America (not offered in 2015-2016)
AMST 247 We've Never Not Been Here: Indigenous Peoples and Places
AMST 396 Place, Memory, and National Narrative in American Studies
DANC 266 Reading The Dancing Body: Topics in Dance History (not offered in 2015-2016)
ENGL 223 American Transcendentalism (not offered in 2015-2016)
ENGL 234 Literature of the American South
ENGL 235 Asian American Literature
ENGL 236 American Nature Writing (not offered in 2015-2016)
ENGL 247 The American West
ENGL 248 Visions of California
HIST 205 American Environmental History
HIST 226 U.S. Consumer Culture (not offered in 2015-2016)
HIST 229 Working with Gender in U.S. History
HIST 274 Drugs, Violence & Rebellion in Mexico: From the Dirty War to the Drug War
HIST 322 Civil Rights and Black Power (not offered in 2015-2016)
LTAM 270 Chile's September 11th: History and Memory since the Coup
POSC 355 Identity, Culture and Rights* (not offered in 2015-2016)
RELG 244 Hip Hop, Reggae, and Religion: Music and the Religion-Political Imagination of the Black Atlantic (not offered in 2015-2016)
RELG 281 Performing Tradition: Art, Religion, and Globalization (not offered in 2015-2016)
RELG 289 Global Religions in Minnesota
RELG 344 Lived Religion in America (not offered in 2015-2016)
SOAN 204 Media and Society
SOAN 220 Class, Power, and Inequality in America (not offered in 2015-2016)
SOAN 225 Social Movements
SOAN 227 Masculinities and Gender
SOAN 259 Comparative Issues in Native North America (not offered in 2015-2016)
SOAN 272 Race and Ethnicity in the United States (not offered in 2015-2016)
SOAN 283 Immigration and Immigrants in Europe and the United States
WGST 220 LGBTQ Movements in the U.S.
Capstone
MUSC 306 Seminar in American Music (Rotating topics) (Not offered in 2015-2016)
MUSC 307 Music in Childhood, Youth and Adolescent Culture (Not offered in 2015-2016)
MUSC 332 Motown (Not offered in 2015-2016)
MUSC 333 The Beatles