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May 06, 2024
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HIST 216 - The History of Rock and Roll4 credits
Surveys the origin and development of rock and roll music in the United States. Explores how the cultural, social, and political history manifests in early popular music. Traces the advent of early rock and roll following World War II. The genre combined various popular musical traditions to offer something both new and old for a rapidly expanding and changing audience. In the following decades, the genre expanded dramatically in form and influence to cut across lines of race, class, and gender (blues, folk, R&B, punk, etc.) to both fascinate and bedevil critics, political leaders, and parents everywhere. Students examine these developments and the various ways Rock and Roll continued to be both a reflection of and affected by late 20th century U.S. history. CLA-Breadth/Humanities
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