Review:
Probably the worst class I have taken at Tufts so far. I don?t think she knows anything about African-American music, African-Americans, or anything African for that matter. She only goes by this one book by Eileen Southern, which has to be the worst book ever. It reads like a dictionary but Newman still swears by it. The only good times in that class was when we had guest lecturers because they actually knew what they were talking about. Instead, the only thing Newman knew was 1840's German Folk Music. Do not take this class, even if it is for an arts requirement. To her the 1840's was probably the best decade ever (she said that in class) even though at the time African-Americans were still enslaved.

Workload:
There wasn't much reading, mostly from the dictionary-like Southern book. If you just read the book and don't go to class you will be fine because she doesn?t talk about anything that isn?t in the book. There is one paper and it's not too bad. But I don't even know why I'm writing this because the class is cancelled for next semester. Just had to let off some steam.

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