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MUS 160 - Popular Music in America


3 Credits, 3 Contact Hours (3 lec.)

Study of the history of popular music culture in America through current trends in today’s society. Includes background of music, sources of music, birth of music, syncopated song and dance, jazz, crooners and jazz singers, musical theater, country music, Latin music traditions, and roots of rock and roll. Also includes impact of technology, motown and soul, rock in the seventies, and modern trends.

Gen-Ed: Meets AGEC - FA or HUM and C; Meets - CTE - A&H and C.