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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
Brandeis University, American
Experimental Music: Study and Practice
Jeff Roberts
University of Virginia, American
Musical Mavericks
Matthew Burtner
Weslyan College, Experimental
Music
Ronald Kuivila
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
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
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
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
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
Colorado College, American
Indian Musics
Victoria Levine
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
Hampshire College, American Strings: Old Time and Bluegrass
Rebecca Miller
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