Welcome - Read and Perform - Exploring Hispanic Literature and its Music through Spanish/Flamenco Guitar MUSC 2045   Read and Perform - Exploring Hispanic Literature and its Music through Spanish/Flamenco Guitar
CREDIT HOURS: 3
The course brings together the study of Hispanic literary texts and the relevant guitar repertoire and performance techniques. Both components will unfold concurrently providing an opportunity for reflection on crucial political and social junctures, through both music and narrative. Topics will include the military dictatorships of the Southern Cone, life in southern Spain in the years leading up to the country’s civil war, and the Mexican Revolution, as an event that re-shaped Latin America’s political landscape. The musical component of the class will be centered on the New Latin American song and the music of protest; Flamenco guitar performance techniques and repertoire, and the Mexican Corrido and Ballads of the Revolution.
FORMAT:

• Lecture
• Lab

CROSS-LISTING: SPAN 2045
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