AMST 3214

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AMST 3214
Dance in America: Cultures, Identities, and Fabrication

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2024-2025.

This course explores dance across multiple stages—TikTok videos, concert halls, streets—to assess how people create, sustain, and challenge markers of difference (race, gender, sexuality, ability, and class). How is dance appreciation different from appropriation? What are dancing avatars in video games allowed to do that real persons are not? We will examine genres such as k-pop, hip hop, salsa, modern dance, and ballroom as we develop the tools necessary for viewing dance, analyzing it, and understanding its place in larger social, cultural, historical, and political structures. We will explore how markers of difference affect the practice and the reception of dance forms, and, in turn, how dance helps shape representations of identities.

When Offered Summer.

Distribution Category (ALC-AS) (CA-AG, LA-AG)

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Syllabi: none

  •   Winter Session.  Combined with: PMA 3214

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  1144 AMST 3214   SEM 101

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    • MTWRF Online Meeting
    • Jan 2 - Jan 17, 2025

    • Aldape Munoz, J

  • Instruction Mode: Distance Learning-Synchronous
    This Winter Session class is offered by the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions. For details visit: https://sce.cornell.edu/courses/roster.