FPA 233 - Music in the Time of Thomas Paine

Named moral godfather of the internet by Wired magazine, misquoted by President Barack Obama in his historic first inaugural address of 2009, claimed by all sides in an increasingly fractious American political climate, and recently credited with establishing the very concept and performance of” right” and “left” in American politics, Thomas Paine is a man comfortably plucked from his late eighteenth-century revolutionary era to either address or contain our contemporary cultural and political quarrels. These courses are an attempt to address, confront, challenge, and understand Paine’s life, works, and influence not simply on his own era, but, through an interdisciplinary nexus, on the modern world.
Lecture
3 Credits
Offered in the Fall Semester