MUSI 287 - American Popular Music, 1850-1950

Semester Offered: Fall
0.5 unit(s)

This course explores popular music in America from the years leading up the Civil War and through WWII. This is the period when popular music in the United States came into its own and began to be exported around the world. It is also a period rich in complex social and politic issues, most of which found there way into the songs and dance numbers written for the vaudeville and variety stage, the minstrel shows, the union and protest movements, the dance halls, early recordings, radio, Broadway, and the movies. Michael Pisani.

Prerequisite(s): One college course in Music or American history before 1900.

First six-week course.

Two 75-minute periods.