Prerequisite: ENGL245, FILM245,CINE245, FILM283, CINE283 or SLLC283; or permission of instructor.

Also offered as ENGL329Q. Credit only granted for CINE329F or ENGL329Q.

Explores the complicated ways that cinema has represented, appropriated, and/or embodied music from African American communities throughout its history. Films studied will cover a wide range of styles and movements, from early jazz "soundies" ("Duke Ellington: Jam Session"), animated shorts (Date with Dizzy), documentaries (Cry of Jazz), 1970s funk soundtracks (Shaft), Afro-Futurism (Space is the Place, Ornette: Made inAmerica), rock musicals (Purple Rain), hip-hop films (Idywild), and "visual albums" (Lemonade, Dirty Computer).