Classroom Syllabi
American Music Course Syllabi
Syllabus Categories
- 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
- Local Topics
- Musician Specific Course
American Art Music (Broadly Defined)
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, 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 Delaware, Popular
Music in the United States 1890-1980
David Suisman
University of Idaho, Studies
in American Music
Mary DuPree
University of Kentucky, American Music (part
1) (part 2)
Ron Pen
Wake Forest University, American Music
Susan Borwick
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
Indiana University, Music
Since 1900: Modernism, Tradition and the Avant-Garde
J. Peter Burkholder
University of Houston, Music
of the Twentieth Century II – Music after 1945
Tim Koozin
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
Brown University, The
Rise and Fall of Tin Pan Alley
Rose Rosengard Subotnik
CUNY – Queens College, The
Music Industry
Amy Herzog
Georgetown College, History
of Rock Music
Dr. Sonny Burnette
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
Seattle Pacific University, Survey
of Popular Music
David Anderson
University of Salzburg, Jazz and American Popular Music at Home and Abroad
Reinhold Wagnleitner and Lew Erenberg
African-American Music
Grinnell College, The
Music of Black Americans
Ralph Russell
University of Michigan, Dearborn,
Introduction to Gospel Music
Deborah Smith Pollard
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
Mark Sunkett
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
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
Local Topics
Hampshire College, American Strings: Old Time and Bluegrass
Rebecca Miller
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 [suggested reading: George Gershwin, Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, and the American Century: Curriculum Units by Fellows of the Houston Teachers Institute, Vol. 5 (Houston Teachers Institute, 2005)]
Arizona State University, Beatles
Mike Shellans