MHST 356 - Music of the 1960s

Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 3
Attribute: CNDP; DDHU

This course will explore developments in European-based concert music, jazz, and popular music during the 1960s.  The focus will be on cross currents from style to style during a decade when boundaries were unusually fluid.  Consideration will be given the modernist aesthetic, development of minimalism, electronic music, new instrumental and vocal techniques, aleatory composition and performance; hard bop, fusion, free and modal jazz; Motown, the British invasion, rock, soul, folk music.  A main theme of the course will be art in the context of political and social developments of the decade. 
Instructor: C. Macdonald
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite, second-year student or above. 

Enrollment limit 20