The course Music and Activism aims to explore musical practice as part of, and in many cases contributing to, social and political change. This course will offer graduate students an opportunity to survey a diverse range of cases, methodologies, and historical and cultural context for understanding the roles of music in challenging the status quo. By the end of the course, students should be able to critically theorize music's roles in activist movements and in political regimes more generally from a variety of perspectives. Students will gain an introductory knowledge of several interdisciplinary fields that intersect with music and activism, including critical race studies, gender and sexuality, postcolonial studies, environmentalism, conflict, among many others. Students will deepen their abilities to put different perspectives from the authors surveyed into conversation with one another through a literature review essay focused on one of these subfields and will gain experience applying these theoretical ideas to a case study of their choosing. Through exposure to cases from different historical periods and geographical locations, they will deepen their ability to think about these issues cross culturally. They will gain experience in having in-depth conversations about the assigned texts and materials, and they will sharpen their abilities to summarize articles through presentations. The goal is that these materials will be of direct relevance to them in their own research and that the ideas, if not the case studies themselves, will figure directly into their Masters and PhD projects.