- Instructor: Reid Bertone-Johnson
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Category: Spring 2016-2017
- Instructor: Reid Bertone-Johnson
Category: Spring 2016-2017
- Instructor: Reid Bertone-Johnson
Category: 2023 Spring Semester
About this course
What you'll learn
- Explore some of the important theoretical foundations, empirical findings, research methods, and applications of political psychology
- Apply psychological theories to understand people’s motivations for becoming politically active
- Analyze primary source materials and learn why archival preservation is critical for the visibility of women's stories
- Instructor: Tammy Lockett
Category: ITS
MUSIC-220: Topics in World Music
(African Popular Music)
Smith College
Spring 2021
Instructor: Bode Omojola, PhD.
(Five College Professor)
Time: 10:15 am ET-12:10 pm ET
Venue: Remote
Office Hours: 12:15 pm ET-1:15 pm ET
Course Description
This course focuses on twentieth-century African popular music. It examines musical genres from different parts of the continent, investigating their relationships to the historical, political, and social dynamics of their respective national and regional origins. Musical idioms like highlife, soukous, kwaito, afrobeat, hiplife, and afrobeats will be studied to assess the significance of popular music as a creative response to social and political developments in colonial and postcolonial Africa. The course also discusses the growth of hip-hop music in selected countries by exploring how indigenous cultural tropes have provided the basis for its local adaptation. The themes explored in this class also include music and identity; music, politics, and resistance; cosmopolitanism, neo-traditional forms, appropriation, and the politics of musical nostalgia.
(African Popular Music)
Smith College
Spring 2021
Instructor: Bode Omojola, PhD.
(Five College Professor)
Time: 10:15 am ET-12:10 pm ET
Venue: Remote
Office Hours: 12:15 pm ET-1:15 pm ET
Course Description
This course focuses on twentieth-century African popular music. It examines musical genres from different parts of the continent, investigating their relationships to the historical, political, and social dynamics of their respective national and regional origins. Musical idioms like highlife, soukous, kwaito, afrobeat, hiplife, and afrobeats will be studied to assess the significance of popular music as a creative response to social and political developments in colonial and postcolonial Africa. The course also discusses the growth of hip-hop music in selected countries by exploring how indigenous cultural tropes have provided the basis for its local adaptation. The themes explored in this class also include music and identity; music, politics, and resistance; cosmopolitanism, neo-traditional forms, appropriation, and the politics of musical nostalgia.
- Instructor: Olabode Omojola
Category: Spring 2020-2021
Course Title: Master Musicians of Africa I: West Africa
Course No: MUS 220
Instructor: Bode Omojola, Ph.D.
Meeting Venue: Sage Hall 215
Time: TuTh: 10:30-11:50am
Office Hours: TuTh: 12-1pm (Room TBD)
E-mail: bomojola@smith.edu or: bomojola@mtholyoke.edu
Course Description
This course concentrates on the lives and music of selected West African musicians. Departing from ethnographic approaches that mask the identity of individual musicians and treat African societies as collectives, this course emphasizes the contributions of individual West African musicians whose stature as master musicians is undisputed within their respective communities. It examines the contributions of individual musicians and ensembles to the ever continuous process of negotiating the boundaries and ambience of African musical practice. Individuals and groups covered this semester include Angélique Kidjo (Benin), Fela Anikulapo-Kuti and Babatunde Olatunji (Nigeria), and Dzigbordi women (Ghana). The variety of artistic expressions of selected musicians also provides a basis for examining the interrelatedness of different African musical idioms, and the receptivity of African music to non-African styles.
Course No: MUS 220
Instructor: Bode Omojola, Ph.D.
Meeting Venue: Sage Hall 215
Time: TuTh: 10:30-11:50am
Office Hours: TuTh: 12-1pm (Room TBD)
E-mail: bomojola@smith.edu or: bomojola@mtholyoke.edu
Course Description
This course concentrates on the lives and music of selected West African musicians. Departing from ethnographic approaches that mask the identity of individual musicians and treat African societies as collectives, this course emphasizes the contributions of individual West African musicians whose stature as master musicians is undisputed within their respective communities. It examines the contributions of individual musicians and ensembles to the ever continuous process of negotiating the boundaries and ambience of African musical practice. Individuals and groups covered this semester include Angélique Kidjo (Benin), Fela Anikulapo-Kuti and Babatunde Olatunji (Nigeria), and Dzigbordi women (Ghana). The variety of artistic expressions of selected musicians also provides a basis for examining the interrelatedness of different African musical idioms, and the receptivity of African music to non-African styles.
- Instructor: Olabode Omojola
Category: Spring 2016-2017
- Instructor: Jonathan Hirsh
- Instructor: Amanda Huntleigh
- Instructor: Ensembles Manager
- Instructor: Reka Peterson
Category: Fall 2016-2017
- Instructor: Sarah Paquet
Category: Fall 2018-2019
- Instructor: Amanda Huntleigh
- Instructor: Ensembles Manager
- Instructor: Reka Peterson
Category: Fall 2017-2018
- Instructor: Jonathan Hirsh
- Instructor: Amanda Huntleigh
- Instructor: Ensembles Manager
- Instructor: Reka Peterson
Category: Spring 2016-2017
- Instructor: Jonathan Hirsh
- Instructor: Amanda Huntleigh
- Instructor: Ensembles Manager
Category: Spring 2017-2018
- Instructor: Sarah Paquet
Category: Spring 2018-2019
- Instructor: Jonathan Hirsh
- Instructor: Amanda Huntleigh
- Instructor: Ensembles Manager
- Instructor: Reka Peterson
Category: Fall 2016-2017
- Instructor: Paige Graham
- Instructor: Jonathan Hirsh
- Instructor: Ensembles Manager
- Instructor: Sarah Paquet
Category: Spring 2020-2021
- Instructor: Jonathan Hirsh
- Instructor: Ensembles Manager
- Instructor: Sarah Paquet
Category: Fall 2020-2021
- Instructor: Ezra Curtis
- Instructor: Lemuel Gurtowsky
- Instructor: Jonathan Hirsh
- Instructor: Robin Livingston
- Instructor: Ensembles Manager
- Instructor: Sarah Paquet
- Instructor: Jessica Yoder
Category: Fall 2019-2020
- Instructor: Jonathan Hirsh
- Instructor: Amanda Huntleigh
- Instructor: Maya Sposito
Category: Spring 2017-2018
- Instructor: Jonathan Hirsh
- Instructor: Ensembles Manager
- Instructor: Sarah Paquet
Category: Fall 2018-2019
- Instructor: Jonathan Hirsh
- Instructor: Claire Kenny
- Instructor: Robin Livingston
- Instructor: Ensembles Manager
- Instructor: Sarah Paquet
- Instructor: Maya Sposito
- Instructor: Jessica Yoder
Category: Spring 2019-2020
- Instructor: Jonathan Hirsh
- Instructor: Amanda Huntleigh
- Instructor: Ensembles Manager
- Instructor: Reka Peterson
Category: Spring 2016-2017