{"id":1009,"date":"2017-11-16T15:54:48","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T20:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/universityfundingprograms\/?page_id=1009"},"modified":"2017-11-16T16:10:28","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T21:10:28","slug":"rhythm-of-change-african-music-and-african-politics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/universityfundingprograms\/university-courses\/rhythm-of-change-african-music-and-african-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhythm of Change: African Music and African Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1010\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2261\/2017\/11\/Music-Note.png\" alt=\"Music Note\" width=\"250\" height=\"154\" \/>Rhythm of Change: African Music and African Politics (UNIV 3100)\u00a0<\/strong>will examine the\u00a0role of music as a marker and agent in political change in Africa. Focuses on the role of music in African politics across four substantive themes: (1) political and electoral completion in democracies and dictatorships, (2) political conflict, violence and conflict-transformation, (3) identity-building and nationalism, and (4) Western\/global cultural and political influence. Combines conventional lecture\/readings format with multimedia, classroom engagement with speakers, musical composition and community activism.<\/p>\n<h2>Recent\u00a0Blogs<\/h2>\n<ul>\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t<a href =\"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/universityfundingprograms\/2018\/01\/introducing-rhythm-of-change-african-music-and-african-politics\/\" title=\"Introducing \u2018Rhythm of Change: African Music and African Politics\u2019\">Introducing \u2018Rhythm of Change: African Music and African Politics\u2019<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rhythm of Change: African Music and African Politics (UNIV 3100)\u00a0will examine the\u00a0role of music as a marker and agent in political change in Africa. Focuses on the role of music in African politics across four substantive themes: (1) political and electoral completion in democracies and dictatorships, (2) political conflict, violence and conflict-transformation, (3) identity-building and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6209,"featured_media":0,"parent":7,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1009","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/universityfundingprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/universityfundingprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/universityfundingprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/universityfundingprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6209"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/universityfundingprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1009"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/universityfundingprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/universityfundingprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1009\/revisions\/1028"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/universityfundingprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/universityfundingprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/universityfundingprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}