# ENGL 175: Audiotopia: Reading Race and Music

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# ENGL 175: Audiotopia: Reading Race and Music

Spring 2025 · UW–Madison

This seminar connects literary form with listening and performance. Readings and media invite close attention to voice, memory, race, migration, and the relationship between artists and audiences.

## Topics

- Close reading, narrative perspective, and interpretation
- Music, identity, and cultural memory
- African diasporic writing and performance
- Tourism, celebrity, representation, and power

## Notes

- [[lectures/index|Lecture notes]]
- [[readings/index|Literary texts and viewing guides]]
- [[media/index|Additional media notes]]
- [[guides/index|Writing and presentation guides]]
- [[homework/index|Assignment instructions and personal work]]
- [[exams/final/index|Passage-identification exam]]
- [[course-details|Course details and archive context]]