MUSC 370 - African American Spiritual

Credits: (4)
This course will be of special interest to those wishing to learn more about the rich history of a uniquely American musical tradition. We will study the spiritual in its social, political and racial dimensions with an emphasis on the role that African American student singing groups in Tennessee and Virginia’s Tidewater region played in the dissemination of the spiritual world-wide. Members of the seminar will explore original documents and recordings in regional archives, particularly at Hampton University, where the Hampton Institute Singers were among the first to sing and promote the concert spiritual. No prerequisites.