GER-HM
A general survey course designed to introduce students to jazz music from the following periods: ragtime, the blues, New Orleans Dixieland, Chicago Dixieland, stride piano, boogiewoogie, swing, bebop, cool, hard bop, funky, third stream, free jazz, fusion, neoclassicism and Latin jazz. Relevant cultural, biographical and historical data is covered that pertains to jazz music and its performance. Listening skills are exercised and become the vehicle through which specific jazz music concepts are examined. No previous music experience is necessary or expected.

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