printer friendly pageAFRICAAM 20A: Jazz Theory (MUSIC 20A)
Introduces the language and sounds of jazz through listening, analysis, and compositional exercises. Students apply the fundamentals of music theory to the study of jazz. Prerequisite:
Music 19, consent of instructor, or satisfactory demonstration of basic musical skills proficiency on qualifying examination on first day of class. This class is closed by design. Please register on the waitlist and show up on the first day of class to receive a permission number for enrollment.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-CE
Instructors:
Nadel, J. (PI)
AFRICAAM 37: Contemporary Choreography: Chocolate Heads 'Weather Simulator' Performance Project (DANCE 30)
An interdisciplinary project-based class to develop dance technique, collaborative choreography, and associated visual and musical arts. We invite dancers, movers, and emerging creators of all styles and backgrounds. The Autumn 22-23 project will focus on creating a "weather simulator" as a vehicle to explore the relationship between weather and human social life. We will use improvisational scores, meteorological data, gaming and machine learning strategies to both become weather and respond to weather. Through this poetic simulator, we will devise a collective way of thinking about our survival and our creative agency. How does weather change our way of being? How is the weather affected by human behavior on earth? In an unpredictable world of climate catastrophes, how can our simulator inspire hope through collective imagination grounded in science? The Chocolate Heads will continue the practice of creating intermedia performances using dance, film projection, technology, and live music. We are seeking interdisciplinary artists in dance, poetry, music, graphics, video and AI. All levels of experience are welcome. WEEK 1: TU 9/27--Introduction to the Project & CHs Band; THU 9/29--1st Audition Workshop. Contact Instructor (Aleta Hayes, ahayes1@stanford.edu) for more information.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1-2
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Hayes, A. (PI)
AFRICAAM 45: Dance Improvisation from Freestyle to Hip Hop (DANCE 45)
In this dance improvisation class, we will develop techniques and practices to cultivate an improvisational practice in dance and domains beyond. This class is an arena for physical and artistic exploration to fire the imagination of dance improvisers and to promote collaborative and interactive intelligence. We will draw upon dance styles and gestural vocabularies, including contemporary dance, hip-hop, vogue and more. Students will learn how to apply these improvisational dance ideas to generate and innovate across disciplines. Accompanied by a live DJ, students will practice listening with eyes, ears, and our whole bodies. Open to students from all dance, movement, and athletic backgrounds. Beginners welcome.
Last offered: Spring 2022
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE
| Repeatable
for credit
AFRICAAM 108: Islam in West Africa Beyond Decolonization (GLOBAL 108, GLOBAL 308, RELIGST 208X, RELIGST 308X)
This course will survey the history of Islam and Muslim societies in West Africa through the beliefs, practices, writings, stories and poems of Sufi scholarly sages. The course will focus on the Islamic intellectual and spiritual tradition of West African `ulama (scholars) with specific focus on the most widespread Sufi traditions in the region: the Qadiriyya, the Tijaniyya and the Muridiyya. We will explore the general themes of politics, mysticism, state formation, warfare and revolution, gender and ethnic dynamics, colonial constructions of religious identity, the trans-Atlantic slave trade and contemporary diasporic communities. This course will involve primary source readings of West African Muslim scholars and will center the question of decolonization.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE
Instructors:
El-Sharif, F. (PI)
AFRICAAM 156: Performing History: Race, Politics, and Staging the Plays of August Wilson (CSRE 156T, TAPS 156, TAPS 356)
This course purposefully and explicitly mixes theory and practice. Students will read and discuss the plays of August Wilson, the most celebrated and most produced contemporary American playwright, that comprise his 20th Century History Cycle. Class stages scenes from each of these plays, culminating in a final showcase of longer scenes from his work as a final project.
Last offered: Winter 2018
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE, WAY-EDP
AFRICAAM 167: Animated By Origins: Africa and The Americas (ARTSTUDI 167M)
When working with experimental animation, what can we learn from the Shangaan about compositing, layering and collaging, from the Dogon about counter-rhythms and remixing, or from the Lakota about observation and improvisation? In this class, we will gain a deep understanding of and draw connections between experimental creative practices in selected indigenous/vernacular cultures across Africa and the Americas. We will do this in order to reimagine frameworks for approaching, creating and experiencing experimental media art outside Western canons. Assignments will require students to engage either their own origin stories, histories and/or other archives of their choice or interest. This source material can be personal, collective, public, general, formal, informal, real or imagined. We will look at different ways of approaching archival material (photographs, sound, video, writing, memory) for the purposes of connecting disparate elements into brief and cohesive or anti-cohesive animations. This is an introductory experimental animation class, so no prior experience of animation or video/sound editing is needed.
Terms: Win
| Units: 2
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE
Instructors:
Maelane, L. (PI)
AFRICAAM 180D: Designing Black Experiences (ME 180)
This discussion-rich course is for students to learn design thinking to more confidently navigate life and careers as members and allies of the Black community. This course will allow students to navigate identity while building community to uplift Black voices through design thinking tools to help leverage their experiences and gain a competitive edge. Students will gain a deeper understanding of intersectionality, how to create and cultivate alignment, and learn to effectively navigate life design schemas, ideas, and options.
Terms: Aut, Spr
| Units: 2
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE
Instructors:
Webb, S. (PI)
AFRICAAM 186: Black Experimental Narrative (ARTSTUDI 186)
How do Black video artists and filmmakers use materials, space, and language to construct the subjective space of storytelling? Black Experimental Narrative surveys the aesthetics, history, and theories that characterize experimental Black cinema and video art through a comprehensive range of filmmakers and artists that have contributed work to the canon. As a class project, we will work collectively to design and publish an original publication featuring a selection of work created during the course.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE
Instructors:
Weefur, L. (PI)
AFRICAAM 189: Zora Neale Hurston (AMSTUD 187, ENGLISH 187)
An exploration of the life, times, and works of Zora Neale Hurston, who died in obscurity in 1960 despite having published more books than any other African American woman. We will encounter the diversity of Hurston's interests across a range of media - her training as an anthropologist, her work in the folk cultures of the American South and the urban environment of the North, her diasporic interest in Black expression in the US, the Caribbean, and Africa. We will read Hurston's plays, short stories, folklore, essays, anthropology, and novels, and consider her interest in - and contributions to - photography, film, and music."
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE, WAY-EDP
Instructors:
Jones, G. (PI)
;
Tomar, R. (PI)
AFRICAST 134: Museum Cultures: Exhibiting the African Imaginary (AFRICAST 234, ARCHLGY 134, ARCHLGY 234, ARTHIST 284B)
Museums are dynamic spaces with the potential to reinvent, rehabilitate, and recenter marginalized people and collections. This year, our seminar examines and enacts museum stewardship of material cultures of diverse African communities across space, time, and context. Legacies of colonialism inspire debates on restitution, reparation, and reconciliation, alongside actions to 'decolonize' museum practice. In engaging the politics of representation and human-object relationships, our class will challenge problematic imaginaries of Africa and recenter the complexities of cultures in the Horn of Africa spanning Ethiopia, Nubian Egypt, and Sudan. Students will acquire skills in researching, curating, and installing an exhibition based on Stanford's African archeological and ethnographic materials held at the Stanford University Archeology Collections (SUAC). This course will culminate in a student-curated exhibition that opens on Friday May 27, 2022 at the Stanford Archeology Center (Bldg
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Museums are dynamic spaces with the potential to reinvent, rehabilitate, and recenter marginalized people and collections. This year, our seminar examines and enacts museum stewardship of material cultures of diverse African communities across space, time, and context. Legacies of colonialism inspire debates on restitution, reparation, and reconciliation, alongside actions to 'decolonize' museum practice. In engaging the politics of representation and human-object relationships, our class will challenge problematic imaginaries of Africa and recenter the complexities of cultures in the Horn of Africa spanning Ethiopia, Nubian Egypt, and Sudan. Students will acquire skills in researching, curating, and installing an exhibition based on Stanford's African archeological and ethnographic materials held at the Stanford University Archeology Collections (SUAC). This course will culminate in a student-curated exhibition that opens on Friday May 27, 2022 at the Stanford Archeology Center (Bldg 500) and is planned to feature renowned Somali-Swedish archeologist, Dr. Sada Mire, as the keynote speaker.nnBecause of limited spacing you will need to fill out this form
https://forms.gle/h8F46iv5iSwiX3PY7 and receive consent to enroll in the course from the instructor. nn3 credits (no final project) or 5 credits (final project). May be repeat for credit
Last offered: Spring 2022
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-CE
| Repeatable
3 times
(up to 15 units total)
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