MUS 213
Music & Social Activism · 3 credits · Fall 2026
Requirements
Prerequisites: ENG 101, and any music (MUS) course
About this course
Music plays important roles in social activism by galvanizing community, highlighting problematics in systems of power and social injustice, and inspiring action. This course examines the relationship between music and activism in various periods and cultures, including in the twentieth-century labor and civil rights movements; Rock and the Vietnam War; Afro-Pop and post-colonial Nigeria; Indaba and ?Nkosi Sikelel i-Afrika? in the fight against Apartheid in South Africa; and social activism in Hip-Hop and Rap.
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