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A postcard advertising sheet music for a song entitled "Michigan Forever!"

Campus Chords: Devotional Harmonies and the Dissonance of Difference in the University of Michigan’s Songbook with Mark Clague

Event Details

Date

Thursday, March 18, 2021

Time

7:00 – 7:00 pm

Location

Judy & Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory 1398 E. Ann Street Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Event Type

In-person

Songs are an integral part of college life, sung at sporting events, Glee Club concerts, graduations, and many other events.

Professor Mark Clague from the U-M School of Music, Theatre & Dance explores the history of many familiar—and unfamiliar—U-M songs, tracing their origins, the social functions of songs and singing on campus, and how racism and sexism are heard in American popular music and thus echoes in the University’s own historical songbook.