Class notes
Week 1 -- the roots of American Popular
music; early rock’n’roll
Week 2 – 1960s; doo-wop, surf music, Motown,
Beatles, Dylan
Week 3 – the 1970s; issues of authenticity, genre proliferation
The constant Latin influence pdf
Week 4 – the 1980s; yet more on
authenticity; Thriller
Week 5 – the 1990s; rap
Several canons
(lists of key works) of rock & popular music
Required textbook: Rockin’ Out; Popular Music in the USA, Reebee Garofalo, fourth edition, Pearson Prentice-Hall, 2008.
Websites & Internet use: The textbook website is useful. It has listening guides, practice quizzes, and iTunes links.
This class website will be a simple archive of class materials, such as the syllabus and class notes. Review it weekly. The listening guides can be particularly helpful for your song assessments.
Other
class materials (listening examples) will be posted on the WebAccess site for this class:
log in using your G number and 6-digit birth date, MMDDYY, no spaces or
hyphens.
Check your student email account at least once a week. (It is easy to have this forwarded to any convenient email address.) While hard copy is preferred for assignments, if you do submit assignments via email, paste the text into the body of your email, and use your last name as the first part of the file name in any attachments. (for example, a student named Janis Joplin would name an attachment as “joplin_assessment3.doc”)
rev. Jan 2010
David Meckler
Cañada College
Other
music class web pages
ARCHIVE
Spring 2010 EPAPA
1 –
introduction; the roots of American Popular music; blues, early rock, doo-wop,
surf music (1955-1965) (assessments due 8 Feb)
2 – the Beatles, Dylan . . . (1964-1975)
(assessments due 4 March)
The
Latin Presence up to the 1970s (powerpoint)
3 – 1970-1985 (presentations 15 March) from prog
rock to punk and many funky points in between
4 –
1985-1995 (assessments due 21 April)
5
–1995-today (assessments due 17 May)
Final assignment (due 28 May)
Summer 2009
Week
1 -- the roots of American Popular music; early rock, doo-wop, surf music
Week
2 – 1960s
Week
3 – the 1970s; issues of authenticity
Week
4 – the 1980s; yet more on authenticity; Thriller
Week
5 – the 1990s