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MPA 321 - Monterey Jazz Festival


Explores the Monterey Jazz Festival as an institution that musically reflects and shapes cultural values in the United States. Topics include the intersection of jazz with a wide variety of cultural values and social issues involving gender, race, class, politics, religion, sexuality, and more embedded within particular historical and cultural contexts. Students study jazz in live and mediated performance contexts and engage in ethnomusicological fieldwork at the Monterey Jazz Festival. 

Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE  Areas A1 and A2 and A3 and B4 with C- or better)
General Education: UDC Intergrated Arts and Humanities
University Requirement: ES Ethnic Studies
Typically Offered: Fall term only

Units: 3