HONC 317: Singing for our Lives
Driven by curiosity and built on purpose, this is where bold thinking meets thoughtful execution. Let’s create something meaningful together.
Intro to the Class
“Singing for Our Lives” is an interdisciplinary course that investigates LGBTQIA+ identities in contemporary culture by analyzing popular, traditional, and undocumented musical examples of songs confronting prominent social movements in the San Francisco Bay Area between 1970 and the present, most notably the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
Area of Focus
Musical technique (vocal/instrumental), sonic characteristics, performance practices, lyrical classification, poetics, composition, and visual media elements will be examined for how they contribute to understanding the relationship between music, identity, public health, and activism, and how to apply these tenets within our current landscape of community-engaged arts activism.
Our Performance
Our final showcase is going to be at OpenHouse on Thursday, May 26 at 6:00PM