American Music Course Syllabi


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Art Music
American Music Surveys
Twentieth-Century Music
Experimental Music
Rock and Popular Music
African American Music
Blues
Jazz
Rap and Hip-Hop
Musical Theater and Film Music
Native American Music
Local Topics
Musician Specific Course



American Art Music (Broadly Defined)

Austin College, 20th-Century American Music
Wayne Crannell

California Polytechnic State University, America’s Music
Alyson McLamore

North Seattle Community College, Music in the United States
Art Woodbury

Winona State University, American Art Music
Suzanne Draayer

American Music Surveys (Broadly Defined)

Arizona State University, Survey of American Music
Karen M. Bryan

Arizona State University, American Music before 1900
Kay Norton

Arizona State University, 1920s American Music
Kay Norton

Arizona State University, Anglo-American Philosophy of Music since 1960
Kay Norton

Mount Holyoke College, Teaching American Culture Through Music
Daniel Czitrom

Miami University, Music and American Culture
Julie Thompson Klein

University of Idaho, Studies in American Music
Mary DuPree

University of Kentucky, American Music (part 1) (part 2)
Ron Pen

 

Twentieth-Century Music with American Coverage

Brooklyn College, History of 20th-Century Music
Andrea La Rose

Coe College, Music of the 20th Century
William Carson

Florida Atlantic University, 20th Century Music
Ken Keaton

Indiana University, Music Since 1900: Modernism, Tradition and the Avant-Garde
J. Peter Burkholder

University of Delaware, Music of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
L. Peterson

University of Houston, Music of the Twentieth Century II – Music after 1945
Tim Koozin

University of Southern California, Music of the 20th Century
Maja Trochimczyk [Maria Anna Harley]

University of Western Ontario, Opera in 20th-Century America
Emily Abrams Ansari

Experimental Music

Brandeis University, American Experimental Music: Study and Practice
Jeff Roberts

University of Virginia, American Musical Mavericks
Matthew Burtner

Weslyan College, Experimental Music
Ronald Kuivila

Rock and Popular Music

Arizona State University, Rock Music and Culture
Jay Busch

Arizona State University, Pop-Rock Before 1975
Richard Mook

Arizona State University, Pop Rock
Mike Shellans

Austin College, Rock and Roll – History, Culture and Aesthetics
Wayne Crannell

Beloit College, Modern American Literature and Popular Music
Shawn Gillen

Brown University, The Rise and Fall of Tin Pan Alley
Rose Rosengard Subotnik

Chapman University College, Roll Over Beethoven – A Survey of Rock and Roll
Marshall Pipkin

College of William and Mary, Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies – Analyzing Popular Music
Simon Joyce

CUNY – Queens College, The Music Industry
Amy Herzog

Duke University, Songwriting and Popular Music
Stuart Robinson

Florida State University, Modern Popular Music
Samuel Robles

Georgetown College, History of Rock Music
Dr. Sonny Burnette

Hampshire College, Bluegrass and Old Time Music – Performance and Ethnography
Rebecca Miller

Harvey Mudd College, The Sociology of Popular Music
Dipannita Basu

Iowa State University, The History of Rock ‘n’ Roll
David Stuart

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Women, Representation and Music in Select Folk Traditions of the British Isles and North America
Ruth Perry
Judith Tick

Michigan Technological University, Popular Culture – Popular Music
Daniel Makagon

Seattle Pacific University, Survey of Popular Music
David Anderson

African American Music Surveys

Grinnell College, The Music of Black Americans
Ralph Russell

Blues

Kansas State University, African American Music and Culture – Focus on the Blues
Wayne E. Goins
Harriet Joseph Ottenheimer

University of Salzburg, Rhythm and Blues – The ‘Soul’ of US Pop Music as Historical Source
Reinhold Wagnleitner

Jazz

Arizona State University, Jazz in America
Richard Mook

Bates College, Exploring Jazz Guitar
John Smedley

Berea College, The Evolution of Jazz in America
Charles Turner

Carnegie Mellon University, History of Jazz
David Rotenstein

Grinnell College, The Jazz Tradition in America
Ralph Russell

Harvard Extension, Introduction to Jazz – 1900-1945
Thomas G. Everett

Rap and Hip-Hop

Brown University, Routes, Rap, Reggae - Hearing the Histories of Hip-hop and Reggae Together
Wayne Marshall

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Hip Hop
Thomas DeFrantz

Musical Theater and Film Music

Arizona State University, Survey of Musical Theater
Anna Wheeler Gentry

California Polytechnic State University, History of Musical Theater
Alyson McLamore

CUNY – Queens College: The Musical
Amy Herzog

CUNY – Queens College, Popular Music in Film and Television
Amy Herzog

Drexel University, Musical Theater
Bruce Eisenstein

Grinnell College, Soundtracks and Scores – Music in American Cinema
Ralph Russell

Harvard University, American Musical Theater from Show Boat to West Side Story
Carol Oja

Millsaps College: Opening Nights – Musical Theatre of the Twentieth Century
Catherine Freis
Brent Lefavor

Native American Music

Colorado College, American Indian Musics
Victoria Levine

Local Topics

Ohio State University, Backstage in Columbus – Exploring the Great Concert Halls of Ohio’s Capitol City
Mellasenah Morris

University of North Carolina, Southern Music
William Ferris

Musician Specific Courses

Harvard University, Before West Side Story: Leonard Bernstein's Boston
Carol Oja

Dartmouth College, John Cage, Ruth Crawford Seeger
Larry Polansky

Bowling Green State University, 20th Century Innovators – John Cage
Elainie Lillios

University of Houston, George Gershwin, Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber and the American Century
Howard Pollack

Arizona State University, Elvis Presley
Mike Shellans

Arizona State University, Beatles
Mike Shellans