Are you looking for a class...

...about a songwriter who’s

“outrageous, alarming, courageous, and charming”?

(Have we got a class for you!)

SPRING 2015

 

 

Eng 213 Studies in American Literature –

Randy Newman’s American Voice(s)

M/W 10:50-12:05

Starting with his first album in 1968 and continuing through his most recent release in 2011

 (as well as many of his very popular film soundtracks), Randy Newman has populated his music with a series of characters that reflect the complexities and contradictions of the late-20^th-century and early 21^st-century United States.

Often misunderstood because of his preference for dramatic monologues (as opposed to the more personal/confessional approach of the rock/pop/folk singer-songwriter), Newman – steeped in our national, musical and cinematic history – offers his audience unflinching portraits of an array of outcasts, patriots, bigots, dreamers, simpletons, loners, and lovers struggling to understand our world, even as its very foundation seems to be shifting beneath them.

For more info:

 Dr. Gilbert L. Gigliotti

Department of English

Emma Hart Willard Hall 329

Central Connecticut State University

New Britain, CT 06050

 

860/832-2759     gigliotti@ccsu.edu