Acerca de este curso: 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.
Creada por: Universidad de Carolina del Norte en Chapel Hill
Enseñado por: Dr. William Ferris, Joel R. Williamson Eminent Professor of History; Senior Associate Director of CSAS; Adjunct Professor in the Curriculum in Folklore
Department of History
| Compromiso | 6 hours of videos and quizzes |
| Idioma | English |
| Cómo aprobar | Aprueba todas las tareas calificadas para completar el curso. |
| Calificaciones del usuario |
Programa
SEMANA 1
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.
6 videos
- Vídeo: Welcome to the American South
- Vídeo: The Region, the Diaspora, and the Mythic
- Vídeo: Contested Memory and the Global South
- Vídeo: Race, Class and Gender
- Vídeo: My Story
- Vídeo: Teachers
Calificado: Introduction to the American South
SEMANA 2
Oral Tradition
Considering the content and form of the stories, toasts, dozens, auctions and religious sermons and what they reveal about Southern Culture.
8 videos
- Vídeo: A Story Well Told
- Vídeo: Poppa Jazz talks Heaven and Hell
- Vídeo: Toasts and Dozens
- Vídeo: The Auctioneer
- Vídeo: Trading
- Vídeo: The Sermon
- Vídeo: Of the Book and of the Spirit
- Vídeo: The Key to Southern Culture
Calificado: Oral Tradition
SEMANA 3
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.
11 videos
- Vídeo: Formal and Folk Art
- Vídeo: Basket Weaving
- Vídeo: Quilting
- Vídeo: Folk Sculpture
- Vídeo: Folk Painting
- Vídeo: Community Tradition
- Vídeo: Black and White Photography
- Vídeo: Color Photography
- Vídeo: Sense of Place
- Vídeo: Sense of History
- Vídeo: Literature's Influence
Calificado: Southern Artists
SEMANA 4
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.
7 videos
- Vídeo: Southern Letters
- Vídeo: The Voice
- Vídeo: The Short Story
- Vídeo: Eudora Welty and Cleanth Brooks: Literary Friends
- Vídeo: Southern Novelists
- Vídeo: Alice Walker: Regions of the Heart
- Vídeo: The Question of Black Humanity
Calificado: Southern Writers
SEMANA 5
Roots Music
Exploring Southern music and its roots in work chants, fife and drum, and one-strand on the wall music.
8 videos
- Vídeo: One-Strand on the Wall
- Vídeo: Country Roots
- Vídeo: Fife and Drum
- Vídeo: Sacred Harp
- Vídeo: Spirituals
- Vídeo: "Our Father"
- Vídeo: Gospel
- Vídeo: Work Chants
Calificado: Roots Music
SEMANA 6
The Blues
Focusing on this distinctive form of music, so intimately defined by sense of place, class, race, and tradition.
8 videos, 1 reading
- Vídeo: The Heart of Oral Tradition
- Vídeo: Country Blues
- Vídeo: Urban Blues
- Vídeo: Saturday Night, Sunday Morning
- Vídeo: Where Do the Blues Come From?
- Vídeo: The Club Circuit
- Vídeo: Professor of the Blues
- Vídeo: The Family
- Leyendo: Additional Resources
Calificado: Blues
Preguntas Frecuentes
Cómo funciona
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Creadores
Universidad de Carolina del Norte en Chapel Hill
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the nation’s first public university, is known around the world for innovative teaching and research. Regularly ranked as the nation’s best value for academic quality, UNC has produced the most Rhodes Scholars for the past 25 years among U.S. public research universities.
Tarifa
| Comprar curso | |
|---|---|
| Accede a los materiales del curso | Disponible |
| Accede a los materiales con calificación | Disponible |
| Recibe una calificación final | Disponible |
| Obtén un Certificado de curso para compartir | Disponible |
Calificaciones y revisiones
Good course with lots of educator's personal experience and footage.
I am so glad that I was able to participate in this class. It was so very enjoyable and informative.
very helpful an introduction! Making me really wanna know more about the South. Love the Story-telling oral tradition of South!
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I really enjoyed the lectures. Thank you very much for such a great course!