CMUS 256 - American Music in the 1960s

FC CNDP DDHU

4 credits
This course examines the music of the 1960s in the United States across genres and styles–including pop, rock, classical, jazz, R&B, and folk traditions-to see how music reflected American culture and how America was guided by the musical practices and recordings of this decade. We will focus on connections between music and various movements or historical moments of the 1960s, including but not limited to the Civil Rights Movement, the Vietnam War and protests of it, the emergence of the counterculture, and second-wave feminism. We will also consider how much of this understanding has been distorted or romanticized by media and popular histories.