Course Schedule

SCHEDULE              

Week 1:	January 14-18 (January 17 class begins @ 10am) Themes and Streams of American Popular Music, Chapter 1
	*Themes and Streams of Popular Music pp. 1-10
	*Streams of Tradition: European, African American & Latin American Streams pp. 10-17
Week 2:	January 21-25 (January 24 NO CLASS) Popular Music of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, Chapter 2
	*Minstrel Show; Stephen Foster pp. 18-25
	*Dance Music; Brass Bands; Birth of Tin Pan Alley pp. 26-33
	*The Ragtime Craze; the Phonograph pp. 33-40
Week 3:	January 28-February 1 Social Dance and Jazz, 1917-1935; Tin Pan Alley's Golden Age, Chapters 3-4
	*Technology and the Music Business; Dance Music pp. 41-52
	*The Jazz Craze pp. 52-63
	*The Golden Age of Tin Pan Alley Song pp. 64-85
Week 4:	February 4-8 Race Records and The Blues Chapter 5
	*Exam #1
	*Race Records; Classic Blues; Bessie Smith; W. C. Handy pp. 86-99
	*Charley Patton; Blind Lemon Jefferson; Robert Johnson pp. 99-108
Week 5:	February 11-15 Early Country Music; The Swing Era, Chapter 5
	*Early Country Music and Hillbilly Records pp. 109-111
	*Pioneers of Country Music: Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers pp. 111-117
	*Popular Music and the Great Depression pp. 117-119
Week 6:	February 18-22 The Swing Era, 1935-1945, Chapter 6
	*Swing Music and American Culture pp. 120-134
	*Big Bands: Count Basie, Duke Ellington, and Glenn Miller pp. 135-141
	*Country Music in the Swing Era pp. 142-151
Week 7:	February 25-March 1 The Postwar Era, 1946-1954, Chapter 7
	*Popular Music and Technology; the Big Singers; Urban Folk pp. 152-166
	*Southern Music; Rhythm & Blues pp. 166-182
	*Country and Western Music pp. 182-194
Week 8:	March 4-8 Rock "n" Roll, 1954-1959, Chapter 8
	*Exam #2
	*Covers, Early Rock "n" Roll, and the Rock "n" Roll Business pp. 195 -217
	*Early Rock "n" Roll Stars: Country Side and R&B Side pp. 217-229
Week 9:	March 11-15 (March 14 NO CLASS) Rock "n" Roll and American Pop: The 1960s, Chapters 8-9
	*Women, Songwriters, and Producers of Early Rock "n" Roll  pp. 229-235
	Early 1960s: Dance Music and "Teenage Symphonies" pp. 236-245
	Motown; Beach Boys pp. 245-254
Week 10:	March 18-22 The British Invasion, Country, Soul, and Urban Folk, Chapters 9-10
	*The Beatles and the British Invasion pp. 254-268
	*Country; Soul pp. 269-283
	*Urban Folk pp. 284-295
Week 11: Week 12:	SPRING BREAK April 1-5 (April 4 NO CLASS) The Rise of Rock, Country Music, and the Pop Mainstream, Chapters 10-11
	*Rock in the Late 1960s pp. 295-311
	The 1970s; Country Music; the Popular Mainstream pp. 305-329
	*Rock Comes of Age pp. 329-341
Week 13:	April 8-12 The 1970s: Disco and Progressive Country, Chapters 11-12
	*"Night Fever": The Rise of Disco pp. 341-349
	*The Outlaws: Progressive Country, Reggae pp. 350-361
	*Exam #3
Week 14:	April 15-19 The 1970s: Outsider"s Music; 1980s: Digital Technology; MTV, Chapters 12-13
	*1970s Punk and New Wave, Funk pp. 361-376
	Rapper"s Delight: The Origins of Hip-Hop pp. 376-381
	Digital technology, MTV, 1980s Music pp. 381-397
Week 15:	April 22-26 The 1980s: The Popular Mainstream;Prince and Madonna, Chapters 13-14
	*Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen, Paul Simon pp. 397-406
	Prince, Madonna, and the Production of Celebrity pp. 406-441
	The 1990s: Hip-Hop and Rap pp. 420-438
Week 16:	April 29-May 3 Hip-Hop; Alternative Music; World Music,Chapters 14-15
	The 1990s: Techno and Alternative Music pp. 438-458
	Globalization and the Rise of World Music pp. 458-464
	Conclusions pp. 465-476
Finals Week	May 6-10 Exam# 4 TBA