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Undergraduate Record 2019-2020 
    
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Undergraduate Record 2019-2020 [ARCHIVED RECORD]

AAS 3645 - Musical Fictions

Over the course of the semester, we will explore the genre of the contemporary musical novel in order to better understand why writers and readers are so intrigued by the figure of the musician as a literary trope. Pairing close listening and music theory with close readings of seminal blues, jazz, reggae, mambo, calypso and rock novels set in the US, UK, Jamaica, Trinidad, France and Germany.



Credits: 3