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Course Description

Exploding in the 1920s and 1930s the creative energy of Harlem’s poets, painters, novelists, jazz and blues musicians, sculptors, photographers, graphic designers, and filmmakers changed the face of New York City and established the northern Manhattan neighborhood as the intellectual and artistic Black capital of the world. The urgent new ideas, images, and sounds generated in this period of radical self-reinvention had a profound ripple effect that is still felt today in all corners of U.S. culture. This course explores the lives and works of its most important figures.Though the material is divided into two eight-week courses—with the economic crash of 1929 ending the first and the resulting Great Depression beginning the second— they share thematic frames and can be taken in any order or alone. *from the journal FIRE!! Devoted to Younger Negro Artists (1926).

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Annie Janeiro Randall is a musicologist who has taught undergraduate and postgraduate interdisciplinary arts and humanities courses at Bucknell University, New York University, and Mills College. She holds a Ph.D. in Musicology from College Conservatory of Music, (Cincinnati OH), a M.Mus. in Music Composition from DePaul University School of Music (Chicago IL), and a B.A. in Early Modern European History from University of Kent (Canterbury, England). She has published three books and eighteen peer-reviewed articles on topics ranging from Puccini’s operas to 1960s British pop and U.S. protest music. In 2016 she collaborated with New York Baroque Inc. to produce the modern premiere of J.W. v. Goethe’s monodrama, Proserpina (1776), reconstructed from the original music manuscript. Annie is a former editor of the Music/Culture series at Wesleyan University Press and past vice-president of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music. She received the American Musicological Society's Phillip Brett Book Award for Dusty! Queen of the Postmods (Oxford University Press, 2009) in addition to Distinguished Alumna awards from DePaul University and University of Cincinnati. Annie also designed and taught an award winning course in Danville PA focused on group improvisation with incarcerated youth at a juvenile detention facility.

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No Class June 19
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Section Title
FIRE!! Writers, Musicians, and Visual Artists of the Harlem Renaissance I: 1918-1929
Type
Discussion
Days
W
Time
6:00PM to 8:30PM
Dates
Jun 12, 2024 to Aug 07, 2024
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Contact Hours
22.5
Location
  • Online
Delivery Options
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Course Fee(s)
Tuition Fee non-credit $500.00
Section Fees
Philanthropic Add-On: Graham Circle $1,000.00 Optional
Philanthropic Add-On: Cover My Class $130.00 Optional
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