HISTORY OF ROCK 'N' ROLL:
The History of Rock ‘n’ Roll, a semester based elective, is an in depth study of the origins of rock and the social and historical context that gave birth to it and related genres and musical offshoots. From blues and country to punk and heavy metal, students familiarize themselves with landmark groups, music, and movements of different periods, exploring connections between modern music and the artists from the past who have paved the way for the popular music of today.
Major Units of Study:
The course is divided into three units of study, approximately one every six weeks of the semester, covering roughly 20 musical genres from blues up through grunge. The following outline/web serves as a rough a guide for our whole class genre study of the history of rock ‘n’ roll. This is by no means meant to be an exhaustive or hard and fast concrete listing of all musical genres and offshoots before, during, and/or after the birth of rock. It is, rather, a flexible, organic guide from which to begin our discussion and study of the roots of rock and popular music:
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