开始时间: 04/22/2022 持续时间: 6 weeks
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所在平台: CourseraArchive 课程类别: 人文 大学或机构: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill（北卡罗莱纳大学教堂山分校） 授课老师： William Ferris |
课程主页: https://www.coursera.org/course/south
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This course explores the stories, music, and art of the American South and considers how they serve as a window on the region’s history and culture. We will see how the region’s distinctive sense of place defines music and literature in each generation. From small farms to urban neighborhoods, from the region itself to more distant worlds of the southern diaspora, stories, music, and art chronicle places and the people who live within them.
Our course explores the
nature of oral tradition and how its study can provide a methodology for
understanding Southern literature. We
will discuss Southern artists and photographers and will show how the history and traditions of the South influences their work. We
will consider the work of Southern Writers and discuss how they utilize
specific stories, music, and art as a structure for literary forms such as
the novel and the short story. Lastly, we look into the rich history of southern
music and its roots in work chants, fife and drum, and one-strand on the wall
musics.
Week One: Introduction to the American South - Reflecting on geography, the diaspora, the mythic and the global South as ways to approach the contested memory of the region
Week Two: Oral Traditions - Considering the content and form of the stories, toasts, dozens, auctions and religious sermons and what they reveal about Southern Culture
Week Three: Southern Artists - Understanding the distinction between folk art traditions and the high art of the academy with examples of basket-weaving, quilt-making, sculpture, painting, and photography
Week Four: Southern Writers - Examining the lives and works of great Southern writers and looking at how specific stories, music, and art
are referenced and provide structure
for literary forms such as the novel and the short story
Week Five: Roots Music - Exploring southern music and its roots in work
chants, fife and drum, and one-strand on the wall musics
Week Six: The Blues - Focusing on this distinctive form of music, so intimately defined by sense of place, class, race, and tradition
From small farms to urban neighborhoods, from the region itself to the more distant worlds of the southern diaspora, we discover the stories, music, and art of the American South.
