| Title: | Ska: Freedom Sounds! |
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| Course Section Number: | FRT-101-13 |
| Department: | Freshman Tutorial |
| Description: | Ska is a genre of music that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s. It gave rise to both rocksteady and reggae and has seen multiple resurgences, often known as waves. Today ska is often seen as a silly novelty genre but the genre, sometimes referred to as the music of liberation, has a much more serious origin and history. It is indeed a fun style of music meant to make people dance but its history is filled with musicians tackling serious social issues from freedom to gun violence to racism and beyond. This course will study those social issues that permeated through the first, second, third, and current waves of ska; from its origins on Orange Street in Kingston Jamaica in the late 1950 and early 1960s to the punk influenced 2 Tone revolution in England in the late 1970s and early 1980s to silly/fun ska punk in America in the 1990s. The course will introduce students to how historians and social scientists can study the context and actions of the music scene and thus, why ska, is so much more than its reputation may reveal. |
| Credits: | 1.00 |
| Start Date: | August 26, 2026 |
| End Date: | December 19, 2026 |
| Meeting Information: |
08/27/2026-12/17/2026 Lecture Tuesday, Thursday 09:45AM - 11:00AM, Baxter Hall, Room 201
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| Faculty: | Snow, Nick |
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