MUS160 — Popular Music in America
3 , 3 lecture periods 0 lab periods Study of the history of popular music culture in America through current trends in today’s society. Includes background of music, sources of music, birth of music, syncopated song and dance, jazz, crooners and jazz singers, musical theater, country music, Latin music traditions, roots of rock and roll. Also includes impact of technology, motown and soul, and rock in the seventies, and modern trends. AGEC Gen-Ed: A&H CTE Gen-Ed: A&H and C Course Learning