Fall 2018 Course Syllabi

MUSC 207: History of Rock & Roll Music 11 The Roots of Rock-n-Roll, 1900-1955 Week 2: America’s Popular Music Tuesday, August 28 – The Blues Assignment Due: • Personal Music Narrative Required Course Materials: • Reading (35 pages) o Covach, John and Andrew Flory. “The World Before Rock and Roll,” in What’s that Sound?: An Introduction to Rock and Its History , 3 rd Edition , 38-73. New York: W.W. Norton, 2012. Lecture : • Boone, Paul. “America’s Music: The Blues,” MUSC 207: History of Rock & Roll Music . Bottineau, ND: Dakota College at Bottineau, August 28, 2018. In Class Evaluation (ICE): • Group Activity – Defining Popular Music Before Rock and Roll Thursday, August 30 - Jazz Required Course Materials: • Listening (5 minutes): Assigned to Groups o TBA Lecture : • Boone, Paul. “America’s Popular Music: Jazz,” MUSC 207: History of Rock & Roll Music . Bottineau, ND: Dakota College at Bottineau, August 30, 2018. In Class Evaluation (ICE): • Group Activity: Jazz Songs, Youth Culture, & Radio Extra Credit: • Ken Burns, “Our Language,” Jazz (New York: Public Broadcasting System, 2001). Week 3: America’s Folk Music and the Baby Boom Tuesday, September 4 – Folk Music and Country & Western Required Course Materials: • Listening (7 minutes) o Woody Guthrie, “This Land Is Your Land.” Woody Guthrie: This Land is Your Land: The Asch Recordings Volume 1 . Washington DC: Smithsonian, 1941. (4:30) ▪ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxiMrvDbq3s o Williams, Hank. “Hey Good Lookin’.” Hollywood, CA: MGM, 1951. (1:55) ▪ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjCoKslQOEs ▪ http://wwnorton.com/college/music/whats-that-sound4/ Lecture : • Boone, Paul. “America’s Folk Music: Country & Western,” MUSC 207: History of Rock & Roll Music . Bottineau, ND: Dakota College at Bottineau, September 4, 2018. In Class Evaluation (ICE): • Group Activity: How did Blues, Jazz, Folk, and Country & Western lead to Rock and Roll?