"Music can be used to understand and communicate about social justice in the food system. Communicating through music can strengthen and uplift food and social justice practice that is diverse in terms of epistemology, representation, and mode. Music can offer references that may speak to specific and diverse audiences, and open the door for deeper understandings of inequity and justice in ways that step away from Eurocentric insistence on linear and written communication to teach, exchange knowledge, or debate. Building on public programs organized by the Food Studies Program and The Tishman Environment and Design Center in 2022, this course explores music as a way to understand structural and historical inequities in the food system, and as a source of strength and power among those fighting against oppression. We listen to musical pieces and view music videos of artists and everyday musicians who stand as powerful examples of understanding food systems-social justice issues through diverse communication modes. We read authors whose writings speak directly to the role that music can, and has played in such endeavors. As part of the course work, students will analyze musical samples in terms of food and social justice themes that they address and how these works can broaden our understanding of both food systems and diverse ways of knowing."