Selected Topics in Music: (335-CN-14)

Topic

Music of Chicago Neighborhoods

Instructors

David Ramey
David Ramey has been teaching this course for a number of years with Northwestern SCS. He has a Bachelor of Music in Jazz Studies from Webster University (St. Louis, MO)and a Master of Arts in Marketing from the same. Although his "day job" is directing an MBA program, he has also been an active musician in the Chicago area for about 30 years now. Since he started teaching this course his focus is primarily on playing American Roots Music as well as Gypsy Jazz. Other projects he has been involved in include: Tours of famous Chicago musicians grave sites and addresses associated with Chicago music history, lectures on the South Side Music Development for the DuSable Museum, researching and locating famous musicians graves throughout the Mississippi Delta, and running sound for the Smithsonian Folk Life Festival in Washington DC.

Meeting Info

Online: Tues 6:15PM - 9:15PM

Overview of class

This course surveys various forms of music that are indigenous to the music culture of Chicago, such as jazz, blues, gypsy, Irish and klezmer music. By combining interviews, recordings, films and performance, this course connects the student with the neighborhoods and culture that brought these forms of music to Chicago.

Schedule Note: This course will meet remotely, with weekly remote synchronous sessions held on the scheduled day.

Class Attributes

Synchronous:Class meets remotely at scheduled time