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Date:
Monday December 9, 2002
Time:
4 p.m.
Place: Pettigrew 200 |
DESCRIPTION
This
unit offers an interdisciplinary and experiential approach to the study
of New Orleans, the most African city in continental North America. The
goal of this course is to understand the impact of place on culture and
aesthetic practices, to learn how institutions represent New World and
creole transformations of Africanity, and to introduce students to historical
and contemporary debates about African influences in the United States.
Students examine cultural memory, questions of power, and definitions of
cultural terrain as expressed in literature, art, music, and architecture.
In addition to attending the seven day Jazz and Heritage Festival, students
visit various sites of literary, cultural, and historical significance
to New Orleans.
| Cost: $3039. (includes admission to 8-day Jazz Fest, all meals, lodging, field trips, and transportation) |
| The course meets in New Orleans April 23- May 18, 2003 -- 26 Days |
Selection
Process, Dates, and Times:
| 9
January 2003
Students interested in the course should turn in a 2 page essay based upon reading and listening materials onPermanent Reserve in Ladd Library. This essay is due by 4:30 p.m. Please attach two (2) copies of the essay to a completed Universal Petition for Entry into Limited Enrollment Courses that is available on the Registrar's web page. Leave the completed form and essay in a file available in Pettigrew 210. The readings and recordings provide multiple perspectives on New Orleans. This city is at once a catalyst for creativity and a site of lonstanding socio-political inequities, a paradox of cultural hybridity and distinct Africanity, set against a backdrop of collective and individual discontent, struggle, and triumph. In a 2 page double-spaced essay, reflect on what images of New Orleans you gain from the readings and recordings and what perspectives you would add to an interdisciplinary and experiential study of this momentous American city and its literary and artistic traditions. In other words, what would you bring to this class and our understanding of New Orleans? (While you are not required to cite all of the required readings and recordings for this assighment, you should find an imaginative way to demonstrate that you have evaluated the materials.) |
| 10
January 2003
Notification will be made for students selected for interviews. This notification will be posted on the course web site and in Pettigrew 210 by 2:00 p.m. Selected students must sign up for an interview by 4:30 p.m. Sign-up sheet is in Pettigrew 210. |
| 11-12
January 2003
Interviews with Professors Nero and Ruffin |
| 13
January 2003
Announcement of students selected for the course and alternates |
Reading List and Music Compilation on Reserve
Students should refer to this list to complete the essay.
Music CD Reading List
| The Meters.
Hey Pocky A-Way |
Salaam, Kalamu ya. From a Bend in the River. 100 New Orleans Poets (Excerpts) |
| Smiley Lewis
Tee-nah-nah |
Vlach, John Michael. “Afro-Americans.” America’s Architectural Roots. |
| Fats Domino
I’m Walking |
Nero, Charles I. “Protest Literature of the Gens de Couleur.” |
| Irma Thomas
I Done Got Over |
Voosen, Ingerline Alexis. “Germaine Bazzle.” (Available in Professor Nero's and Professor Ruffin's Reserve Boxes, Pettigrew 210 |
| Mahalia Jackson
I Will Move On Up a Little Higher My God Is Real |
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| Neville Brothers
Sister Rosa Will the Circle Be Unbroken |
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| Derek Lee Ragin, Moses Hogan, and the New Orleans
Chamber Choir
Ole Time Religion |
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| Professor Longhair
Big Chief, pt. 1 |
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| Dirty Dozen Brass Band
Mardi Gras in New Orleans |
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| Clifton Chenier
Zydeco Cha Cha |
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| Louis Armstrong and The Hot Fives Struttin’ With Some Barbecue | |
| Wynton Marsalis
Where Or When |
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| Germaine Bazzle
Where Or When |