History of Contemporary Music and Culture 2

Course Description

This course is the second of three that examines the history and culture of contemporary music in North America. It surveys the stylistic development of contemporary music from the end of the Swing Era to the late 1960s. Genres include Bebop, cool jazz and hard bop, free jazz, rumba, rhythm and blues, doo-wop, Soul music, early rock & roll and rockabilly, country and western, bluegrass, the folk revival, the British invasion, the Beatles, and psychedelic rock.