Music (MUSI)
School for Studies in Art and Culture
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
MUSI 2005 [0.5 credit]
Introduction to Jazz History
A survey of ragtime and jazz from their roots in pre-twentieth-century black music and white music to contemporary jazz idioms, including an examination of New Orleans jazz and Dixieland, swing, bebop, cool jazz, and free jazz.
Precludes additional credit for
MUSI 2205.
Prerequisite: second-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.