DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICAL AND MODERN LANGUAGES
Hum 1n.............January, 1995
MTWThF 1:00pm to 4:00pm
(1-2:30pm--Sid Richardson Gym; 2:30-4:00pm--AD 201)
INTRODUCTION TO LATIN AMERICAN
MUSIC AND DANCE
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Prof. Patrick Duffey
Office: Ad 309
Telephone numbers: 813-2364 (office)
892-4474 (home)
Required texts available in bookstore:
1) Paredes, Américo. "With His Pistol in His Hand": A Border Ballad and Its Hero. Austin: U of Texas P, 1958.
2) Roberts, John Storm. The Latin Tinge: The Impact of Latin American Music on the United States. New York: Oxford UP, 1979.
Texts on reserve in the Abell Library:
1) Puig, Manuel. Heartbreak Tango. New York: Dutton, 1973.
2) A reader on the history of Latin American music and dance. In the COURSE CALENDAR, I refer to it with the initials MH.
Videos
1. Salsa: Latin Pop Music in the Cities (Abell)
2. The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
3. Danzón
4. Strictly Ballroom
5. Canciones de mi padre
6. Tango Bar
7. El mariachi
8. ,9., and 10. parts of:Los tres huastecos, a movie by the master of tango, Carlos Gardel, and a video of the
Ballet Folklórico de México.
11. The making of Mi tierra (Gloria Estefan)
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WELCOME! [[exclamdown]]BIENVENIDOS!
I. OBJECTIVES AND ORGANIZATION.
This course combines dance instruction, music appreciation, and cultural history. It will acquaint you with several styles of Mexican, Cuban, and Argentinian popular music and dance. The course is comprised of three components:
A. Dance instruction.
1. Rumba, chachachá, merengue, tango, mambo, salsa, lambada.
Three days per week, on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 1:30pm to 2:30pm in the Sid Richardson gym you will receive an hour of professional ballroom dance instruction from Nancie Phelps.
2. Danza azteca, polka, Jaliscan folk dance.
Two days per week, on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1:30pm to 2:30pm in the Sid Richardson gym, you will receive an hour of professional folkloric dance instruction from the choreographer of the Anita N. Martínez Ballet Folklórico, Ómar Ángeles.
B. History of Latin American Music and Dance.
A wide variety of readings and videotapes will provide a historical context that will enable students to understand the development and extraordinary diversity of Mexican, Cuban, and Argentinian music and dance.
C. Music and Dance in Latin American Literature
Students will read translations of a Latin American novel that has been heavily influenced by music and dance. All students will read Puig's Heartbreak Tango .
II. ATTENDANCE.
Since this course is quite intensive, it is especially important that students attend class everyday. Accordingly, I will deduct a full percentage point from your total grade for each absence. ALL ABSENCES--NO MATTER IF "EXCUSED" OR NOT--COUNT TOWARD THIS TOTAL.
However, students may make up any exam, quiz, or other assignment if the absence occurs as a result of participation in an official Austin College athletic or other event, a serious illness, or some other unavoidable circumstance beyond the student's control.
III. GRADING.
The breakdown is as follows:
OPTION ONE (without 5-page term paper):
Three major exams (15% each)--------------45%
Listening assignments--------------------------15%
Quizzes (15 @ 1% each)----------------------15%
Oral presentation------------------------------10%
Participation in dance classes and
other activities------------------------------------------15%
OPTION TWO (with 5-page term paper):
Two major exams (12.5% each)--------------25%
Listening assignments--------------------------15%
5-page term paper------------------------------20%
Quizzes (15 @ 1% each)----------------------15%
Oral presentation------------------------------10%
Participation in dance classes and
other activities------------------------------------------15%
A. EXAMS.
Please mark the following dates on your calendar. Only under extenuating circumstances will a student be granted permission to make up an exam. There will be THREE major exams, according to the following schedule:
Tue., Jan. 17 Exam I (Indigenous music and dance, corridos, With His Pistol in His Hand)
Tue., Jan. 24 Exam II (Heartbreak Tango, Mexican popular music and dance, etc.)
Thu., Feb. 2 Examen III (Comprehensive, but with emphasis on salsa)
Students who choose to write the term paper may take any TWO of the above THREE exams.
B. QUIZZES.
There will be a quiz at the beginning of almost every class. They will be brief tests of your knowledge of the readings and the material discussed in the dance and history classes. I will always give you an idea of what will be on the following day's quiz. There will be no make-up quizzes. Two or three quiz grades will be dropped at the end of the semester.
C. LISTENING ASSIGNMENTS
There will be seven listening assignments. Students will listen to four audio cassettes at home or at the Media center and answer the questions for each assignment. See course outline.
C. TERM PAPER.
The paper may concern any aspect of Latin American music and/or dance that interests you. If you choose to do the paper, you must make an appointment with me so that I may guide you in your research. The term paper is due on Wed., Feb. 1st.
D. ORAL PRESENTATION.
Each student will sign up for one five-minute presentation. The presentation must concern the readings assigned for the previous night's homework. Since the class will be divided into three groups, you will make your presentation only to the members of your own group. The members of your group will be responsible for grading 50% of your presentation according to the following scale: 45-50--A; 40-44--B; 35-39--C; 30-34--D; 29 and below--F. I will grade the other 50%.
E. PARTICIPATION.
All students will be expected to give their best effort in all activities. Students will maintain an attitude of respect and cooperation with all instructors at all times.
IV. SPECIAL EVENTS.
Students will have the opportunity to participate in several special events during the semester. ATTENDANCE IS REQUIRED (UNLESS EXTREMELY EXTENUATING CIRCUMSTANCES PREVENT IT--INSTRUCTOR'S PERMISSION IS REQUIRED!!!!). Mark the following dates on your calendar:
1. 8pm, Sat., Jan. 21--We will TANGO, RUMBA, and CHACHACHÁ at Dancemaster's Ballroom in Dallas. Very elegant. Live orchestra. $11 cover.
2. *4:00pm, Sat., Jan. 28--Groups of three students will meet each of the fourteen dancers, the costume designer, and the choreographer of the Anita N. Martínez Ballet Folklórico. Students will interview the dancers and introduce them to the Austin College campus.
*6:15pm--Pre-concert lecture, explaining the dances that will be performed (Sid Richardson gym).
*6:40pm--AC student performance. The best dancers of our class will provide the warm-up act.
*7:00pm--Performance of the Anita N. Martínez Ballet Folklórico (Sid Richardson gym).
3. 8:30pm, Sun., Jan. 29--We will MERENGUE, SALSA, and CHACHACHÁ at Mónica's Acá y Allá in Dallas. Small cover.
4. 9pm, Fri., Feb 3--More dancing at El Tren Latino in Irving. Small cover.
V. COURSE CALENDAR
9 1pm. 10 1pm. 11 12 13 1pm. 14
Syllabus. Q1. 1pm.Turn 1:30pm. Turn in
Group 1:30pm. in DANZA Listening
assignment DANZA Listening AZTECA Assignment
s. AZTECA Assignment 2:40pm. #2.
1:30pm. 2:40pm. #1. Corridos. 1:30PM
RUMBA. Listen to 1:30pm. (view CHA
2:40pm. samples RUMBA/CHA part of CHA/MERENG
Intro: of CHA Canciones UE
Indigenous indigenous 2:40pm. de mi 2:40pm.
dance/musi music and Discuss padre). Corridos.
c. RUMBA. readings. Rumba. Gregorio
3:20pm. Discuss HMWK: Cha cha. Cortez.
Video--Bal readings/l Read: HMWK: Discuss
let istening *GREGORIO Read other
Folklórico assignment (129-150: *GREGORIO readings.
HMWK: . CORRIDOS) (1-54) HMWK:
Read: Overview. *LATIN *MH Read
*MH--Indig HMWK: TINGE (MH--Part *GREGORIO
. music Read: (76-99: 3: (55-125)
reading *MH--Indig RUMBA) Corridos.
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*LATIN reading *Tape 1. Listen:
TINGE PART 2. Begin *Tape 1.
3-23: *LATIN Listening Finish
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Listen: "The #2.
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Assignment Finish
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Assignment
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MERENGUE/T POLKA. Listening tango/Hear Listening TANGO,
ANGO. 2:40pm. Assignment tbreak Assignment RUMBA,
2:40pm. EXAM I. #3. Tango. #4. 1pm. and
VIDEO--The HMWK: 1:10pm. 1:30pm. Discuss CHACHACHÁ
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exam. 4: More Tango. 2:40pm. Dallas.
Listen: Colonial tango. HMWK: Huasteca Very
*Tape 2. , Colonial, Read music. elegant.
Begin 19th-centu 19th-centu *Heartbrea Agustín Live
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(45-89). *Tape 2. k Tango
*LATIN Finish (131-186)
TINGE Listening *Parts of
(45-60: Assignment Mexican
TANGO). #4. Bolero
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Listening
Assignment
#4.
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MAMBO/SALS salsa. Listening JALISCAN Listening Interview We will
A. 1:30pm. Assignment FOLK Assignment dancers MERENGUE,
2:40pm. JALISCAN #5. DANCE #6. and SALSA,
VIDEO: FOLK 1:30pm. 2:40pm. 1:30pm. introduce and
Tango Bar DANCE MAMBO/SALS Salsa and MAMBO/SALS them to CHACHACHÁ
HMWK: 2:40pm. A/MERENGUE Caribbean A/MERENGUE the at
Read EXAM II 2:40pm. music and /LAMBADA Austin Mónica's
Heartbreak HMWK: Salsa and dance. 2:40pm. College Acá y
Tango Read Caribbean HMWK: VIDEO--Dan campus. Allá in
(187-224) *MH--Part music and View zón. *6:15pm. Dallas.
MH--Part 6.1: dance. Salsa: HMWK: Pre-concer Small
5.1 (More Cuban HMWK: Latin Pop MH--Part t cover.
tango) son. Read Music in 8 lecture.
*LATIN Roots of *MH--Part the (Sid
TINGE salsa. 6.2: More Cities Richardson
(101-126: Salsa. salsa.) Listen: gym).*6:40
1940's *LATIN Listen: *Tape 3. pm--AC
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Listen: MAMBO) Listening Assignment e.*7:00pmP
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Assignment Listening Martínez
#5. Assignment Ballet
#5. Folklórico
(Sid
Richardson
gym).
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Latin Folkloric Listening Folkloric dancing
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2:40pm. TBA 1:30pm FINAL Latino in
Tejano HMWK: Latin EXAM. Irving.
music. Read Ballroom Small
HMWK: TBA Read variations cover.
Read TBA TBA 2:40pm.
View Listen: Tango.
Strictly *Tape 4. HMWK:
Ballroom. Finish Turn in
Listen: Listening term
*Tape 4. Assignment paper.
Begin #7.
Listening
Assignment
#7.