À propos de ce cours : 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.

Créé par : The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Enseigné par : 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

Engagement	6 hours of videos and quizzes
Langue	English
Comment réussir	Réussissez tous les devoirs notés pour terminer le cours.
Notes des utilisateurs	4.4 étoiles Note moyenne des utilisateurs 4.4Voir ce que disent les étudiants

Programme de cours

SEMAINE 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 vidéos

Vidéo: The Region, the Diaspora, and the Mythic
Vidéo: Contested Memory and the Global South
Vidéo: Race, Class and Gender
Vidéo: My Story
Vidéo: Teachers

Noté: Introduction to the American South

SEMAINE 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 vidéos

Vidéo: Poppa Jazz talks Heaven and Hell
Vidéo: Toasts and Dozens
Vidéo: The Auctioneer
Vidéo: Trading
Vidéo: The Sermon
Vidéo: Of the Book and of the Spirit
Vidéo: The Key to Southern Culture

Noté: Oral Tradition

SEMAINE 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 vidéos

Vidéo: Basket Weaving
Vidéo: Quilting
Vidéo: Folk Sculpture
Vidéo: Folk Painting
Vidéo: Community Tradition
Vidéo: Black and White Photography
Vidéo: Color Photography
Vidéo: Sense of Place
Vidéo: Sense of History
Vidéo: Literature's Influence

Noté: Southern Artists

SEMAINE 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 vidéos

Vidéo: The Voice
Vidéo: The Short Story
Vidéo: Eudora Welty and Cleanth Brooks: Literary Friends
Vidéo: Southern Novelists
Vidéo: Alice Walker: Regions of the Heart
Vidéo: The Question of Black Humanity

Noté: Southern Writers

SEMAINE 5

Roots Music

Exploring Southern music and its roots in work chants, fife and drum, and one-strand on the wall music.

8 vidéos

Vidéo: Country Roots
Vidéo: Fife and Drum
Vidéo: Sacred Harp
Vidéo: Spirituals
Vidéo: "Our Father"
Vidéo: Gospel
Vidéo: Work Chants

Noté: Roots Music

SEMAINE 6

The Blues

Focusing on this distinctive form of music, so intimately defined by sense of place, class, race, and tradition.

8 vidéos, 1 lecture

Vidéo: Country Blues
Vidéo: Urban Blues
Vidéo: Saturday Night, Sunday Morning
Vidéo: Where Do the Blues Come From?
Vidéo: The Club Circuit
Vidéo: Professor of the Blues
Vidéo: The Family
Reading: Additional Resources

Noté: Blues

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The University of North Carolina at 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.

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