Class Notes
Course Syllabus
"Definitions" of Folk, Popular, and Art Music
Minstrelsy and Vaudeville
Tin Pan Alley
the Blues
Broadway and the Musical
Early Commercial Country: "Hillbilly" music
the Bristol Sessions
Midterm review
Cowboy Songs and Western Swing
Honky-Tonk
Jazz
Ragtime
New Orleans
King Oliver & Louis Armstrong
Swing
Duke Ellington
the 1950s
Rhythm & Blues and Rockabilly
the "Beat Generation"
The "Teen Market" and Racial Opposition
the 1960s
The Folk and Protest Movement
The Surfers
The British Invasion
Acid Rock, the Psychedelic Era, and Woodstock
Motown and Soul
the 1970s
the 1980s
Final Exam Review
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