Course Summary
This course explores how music can be used as a tool for social change and activism. Students will learn about the history and impact of music in social movements and gain practical skills for using music to effect change in their own communities.Key Learning Points
- Understand the role of music in social movements throughout history
- Learn how to use music as a tool for social change
- Develop practical skills for organizing and leading musical activism projects
Job Positions & Salaries of people who have taken this course might have
- Community Organizer
- USA: $45,000
- India: ₹5,00,000
- Spain: €30,000
- Artistic Director
- USA: $70,000
- India: ₹8,00,000
- Spain: €40,000
- Music Educator
- USA: $50,000
- India: ₹6,00,000
- Spain: €35,000
Related Topics for further study
Learning Outcomes
- Understand the history and impact of music in social movements
- Develop practical skills for using music as a tool for social change
- Create and implement a musical activism project
Prerequisites or good to have knowledge before taking this course
- No prior musical experience necessary
- Willingness to engage in social activism
Course Difficulty Level
IntermediateCourse Format
- Online
- Self-paced
- Video lectures
- Assignments
Similar Courses
- Music and Political Protest
- Arts and Social Justice
Related Education Paths
Notable People in This Field
- Musician and Activist
- Folk Musician and Activist
Related Books
Description
What is a musician’s response to the condition of the world? Do musicians have an obligation and an opportunity to serve the needs of the world with their musicianship?
Outline
- Welcome to Music and Social Action
- Welcome to Music and Social Action
- Introduction to the course
- Course Overview
- Meet Your Instructors!
- Readings and Resources
- Grading and Logistics
- What is Art and How Do We Experience It?
- 2.1 - An introduction to Dewey and Greene
- 2.2 - Making and perceiving art as a human impulse
- 2.3 - The aesthetic dimension and openings
- 2.4 - Ways of seeing: how does an artistic outlook change the way we see the world?
- Dewey's Aesthetics
- The John Dewey Society
- (Optional) Art as Experience by John Dewey Chapters 1 and 2
- (Optional) Releasing the Imagination: Essays on Education, the Arts, and Social Change by Maxine Greene
- The Maxine Greene Center for Aesthetic Education and Social Imagination
- (Optional) The dialectic of freedom by Maxine Greene
- Flow, the secret to happiness
- (Optional) Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- (Optional) The Aesthetic Dimension by Herbert Marcuse
- The Barnes Foundation
- What Is Art and How Do We Experience It?
- Democracy and the Arts, Part 1
- 3.1 - Democracy and the arts, Part I
- 3.2 - What is the role of the arts in a free society?
- 3.3 - Art as a way of understanding the world
- 3.4 - Civil Society and Freedom: what do we mean by freedoms in a democracy?
- 3.5 - Regard for Otherness: Maxine Greene and civil society
- 3.6 - Discussion about Dewey, Maxine Greene, conceptions of freedom and the arts
- Dream Songs: The Music of the March on Washington
- (Optional) Art as Experience by John Dewey (Chapter 14)
- Imagining Art + Social Change
- Music & Civil Society: A Symphony in the Making
- Elements of the Philosophy of Right by G.W. Hegel
- (Optional) Civil Society: Old Images, New Visions by John Keane
- Democracy and the Arts, Part I
- Democracy and the Arts, Part II
- 4.1 - Democracy and the Arts, Part II
- 4.2 - The New Deal
- 4.3 - John F. Kennedy's ideal
- 4.4 - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his dream
- 4.5 - Discussion about President Kennedy, Dr. King, social imagination
- (Optional) A people's art history of the United States: 250 years of activist art and artists working in social justice movements
- The New Deal Stage: Selections from the Federal Theatre Project 1935-1939
- (Optional) “American Resources in the Arts” by Holger Cahill
- Remarks by John F. Kennedy at Amherst College (audio recording and transcript)
- (Optional) All of This Music Belongs to the Nation: The WPA’s Federal Music Project and American Society by Kenneth Bindas
- Martin Luther King, Jr. “I Have a Dream.”
- Democracy and the Arts, Part II
- Arts and Urban Renewal
- 5.1 - Introduction to the class
- 5.2 - How the arts change cities/neighborhoods
- 5.3 - Conversations with directors of Providence and New Haven organizations
- 5.4 - Conversation with Jamie Bennett of ArtPlace America
- Arts Organizations featured throughout this module
- (Optional) The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
- A Marvelous Order: An opera about Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs
- The Power Walker by Charles McGrath
- (Optional) Master builder of New York City by Robert Moses
- (Optional) The battle of Lincoln Square: neighbourhood culture and the rise of resistance to urban renewal by Samuel Zipp
- (Optional) West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein, Arthur Laurents, Stephen Sondheim, Jerome Robbins
- Somewhere by Matthew Lopez
- Arts and Urban Renewal
- 20th Century Artists and Social Commitment
- 6.1 - Pablo Casals, conscience and country
- 6.2 - Bronislaw Huberman, Europe and Palestine in the 1930s
- 6.3 - Yehudi Menuhin and taking political action
- 6.4 - Discussion about Casals and Huberman
- What Happened, Miss Simone? (Netflix Documentary)
- (Optional) "I Don't Trust You Anymore": Nina Simone, Culture, and Black Activism in the 1960s by Ruth Feldstein
- Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit
- (Optional) Harlem Nocturne: Women Artists and Progressive Politics During World War II
- (Optional) Joys and Sorrows: Reflections by Pablo Casals by Pablo Casals and Albert Kahn
- (Optional) Orchestra of Exiles by Josh Aronson
- (Optional) "The Other West Side Story: Urbanization and the Arts Meet at the Lincoln Center" by Julia Foulkes
- (Optional) The sound of freedom : Marian Anderson, the Lincoln Memorial, and the concert that awakened America by Raymond Arsenault
- "Marian Anderson Sings at the Lincoln Memorial" Newreel Story
- (Optional) Sounds of the New Deal : the Federal Music Project in the West by Peter Gough
- (Optional) Pablo Casals : a cry for peace by Robert Snyder
- 21st Century Artists and Social Commitment
- 7.1 - 21st Century Artists and Social Commitment
- 7.2 - Conversation with pianist Jonathan Biss
- 7.3 - Barenboim and the West Eastern Divan Orchestra
- 7.4 - Ai Wei Wei and protest through art making
- 7.5 - Conversation with pianist Vijay Iyer
- (Optional) An Orchestra Beyond Borders: Voices of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra by Elena Cheah
- (Optional) Knowledge is the Beginning by Paul Smaczny
- (Optional) Music Quickens Time by Daniel Barenboim
- (Optional) Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry by Alison Klayman
- It's Not Beautiful by Evan Osnos
- No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear by Toni Morrison
- (Optional) The next American revolution: sustainable activism for the twenty-first century
- Creating Social Action
- 8.1 - Paolo Freire and working with oppressed populations
- 8.2 - Robert Greenleaf and leading through serving
- 8.3 - Discussion about Freire and education
- 8.4 - Art, Service, and Civil Society
- Interview with Paulo Freire. 1996.
- (Optional) Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
- "The Servant as Leader" by Robert Greenleaf
- Robert K. Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership
- (Optional) Democracy and music education : liberalism, ethics, and the politics of practice
- Creating Social Action
- Final Reflection
Summary of User Reviews
Music and Social Action is a highly recommended course by users. It has received positive feedback for its ability to combine music with social justice issues.Key Aspect Users Liked About This Course
The course's ability to combine music with social justice issues.Pros from User Reviews
- Engaging and interesting course material
- Great instructors with extensive knowledge on the subject matter
- Opportunity to learn from and interact with a diverse community of learners
Cons from User Reviews
- Course material can be challenging for beginners
- Lengthy course with weekly assignments
- Limited opportunity for one-on-one interaction with instructors
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