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Music 150P: Melody & Form in Popular Song
Welcome
New from Albany Records!
Anteroom
Events
Purpose / Brief Bio
Statement on Teaching
Notes
Music
Research
Current Courses
An Archaeology of Rock and Roll
Preview and Readings
Listening: The Delta-Chicago Diaspora
Listening: Boogie-woogie
Listening: Country & Rockabilly
C.V.
Background
Creative Work & Research
Anahistoric
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Music 150P: Melody & Form in Popular Song
Intro to U.S. Popular Music
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Listening: US Pop
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UNIT 1 LISTENING: Afr./Angl.-American Diaspora
By the Banks, In the Pines
Pre-war Country Blues
Pre-War City Blues
UNIT 2 LISTENING: Popularizing Jazz & Swing
Two New Orleans Songs
Kansas City & New York Swing
Swinging Tin-Pan Alley
UNIT 4 LISTENING: Cultural Revolution
1960s Girl Groups
R&B and the Beatles
Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan
Bay Area Rock, 1966-1976
Punk: New York and London
Funk Evolution 1970-1985
Epic Rock
UNIT 5: Hip-hop, post-punk, and "the end of pop"
Ska and Reggae
Early Hip-hop
New Wave
Riotgrrl and its Transformations
Later Hip-hop
Post-punk
Additional Listening
Anglo- and Irish-American Folk
Discussion: US Pop
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Unit 1
Casey Jones and John Henry
By the Banks, in the Pines
Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith
Charlie Patton and Blind Willie
UNIT 1 ESSAYS GO HERE
Casey Jones and John Henry Essays
By the Banks, in the Pines Essays
Blues Divas Essays
Country Blues Essays
Unit 2
The Evolution of Early Jazz
Two New Orleans Songs
Analyzing Tin Pan Alley Songs
Swing as an Art Form
Swinging Tin Pan Alley
UNIT 2 ESSAYS GO HERE
Early Jazz Essays
Unit 3
Unit 4
Unit 5
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