Urban Blues and the Golden Age of Rock (LA)

Subject associations
MUS 264
Term
Spring 2019
Instructors
Sarah Town
Rob C. Wegman
Registrar description

Examines the origins and development of rock music in the period 1950-1975. The principal focus is on the songs, styles, and artists of the 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s. However, the course will also trace the roots of rock in American popular culture, reaching back to the 1920s, and it will conclude with a brief look at some of its later ramifications, up to the early 1980s. There will moreover be ample consideration of the cultural and political contexts in which the songs were created and heard.

AAS Subfield
AACL