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2018 - 2019 Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

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EH 218 - Poetry of Popular Music

Credits: 4 credits

Inspired by students who love music but claim to hate poetry, this course focuses on some of the best poems written and recorded by popular musicians since the 1950s.  This is not a music course:  we will study only those song lyrics that succeed as poems on the printed page.  But by learning to identify and understand the imagery, rhyme, rhythm, figures of speech, and rhetorical techniques used by writers from Chuck Berry to Tupac Shakur, students will learn to analyze and understand elements shared by all poetry.  The course will be organized topically rather than chronologically, and will include such topics as social justice (gender, race, and class), religion, love, escape, drugs, alienation, and war.

Prerequisite/Corequisite
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