Cabaret and Culture

VCA-115

What do Satie, Schoenberg, and Ellington have in common? Each made music in a cabaret. Often under-explored, the tradition of cabaret music is remarkably rich and diverse. In this repertoire course, students will explore cabaret music and style across three distinct contexts: late 19th-century Paris, Weimar Germany (with a “Cabaret in the Holocaust” sub-unit), and the Harlem Renaissance. In studying this repertoire and its context, students will have a space in which to explore vital issues of identity and power, focusing on class, gender, and race.

Credits
1
Prerequisites
None
Required Of
None
Electable By
Voice principals
Semesters Offered
Fall
Location
Boston
Department
COVO
Course Chair
Isai Jess Munoz
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