Fall 2018 Course Syllabi

MUSC 207: History of Rock & Roll Music 17 Week 9: Motown Pop, Southern Grit, and the Funk Tuesday, October 16 – The Motown Sound & Look Assignment Due: • Essay Draft for Peer Review Required Course Materials: • Reading (14 pages) o Covach, John and Andrew Flory. “Motown Pop and Southern Soul,” in What’s that Sound?: An Introduction to Rock and Its History , 3 rd Edition , 154-191. New York: W.W. Norton, 2012. ▪ Introduction (222-224) ▪ Barry Gordy Jr. and Black Music for white Audiences (224-227) ▪ The Motown Artists (227-235) • Listening (minutes) o Songs TBA Lecture : • Boone, Paul. “Motown Takes African Americans Mainstream,” MUSC 207: History of Rock & Roll Music . Bottineau, ND: Dakota College at Bottineau, October 16, 2018. In Class Evaluation (ICE): • Activity TBA Extra Credit: • Film: Justman, Paul. Standing in the Shadows of Motown. Santa Monica, CA: Artisan Entertainment, Inc., 2002. o https://vimeo.com/150501920 Thursday, October 18 – Southern Soul and Northern Funk Required Course Materials: • Reading (18 pages) o Covach, John and Andrew Flory. “Motown Pop and Southern Soul,” in What’s that Sound An Introduction to Rock and Its History , 3 rd Edition , 154-191. New York: W.W. Norton, 2012. ▪ Atlantic, Stax, and Southern Soul (235-245) ▪ James Brown (245-253) • Listening (minutes) o Title • Viewing (minutes) o Title Lecture : • Boone, Paul. “Grit, Greasy, and Funky Music: Stax, Mussel Shoals, and James Brown,” MUSC 207: History of Rock & Roll Music . Bottineau, ND: Dakota College at Bottineau, October 18, 2018. In Class Evaluation (ICE): • Activity TBA Extra Credit: •