Lecture 1 - Introduction to Studying Popular Music, Lecture 2 - The World Before Rock and Roll (1890s - 1940s), Lecture 3 - The Postwar Era (1946-1954)...
Week 1 Themes and Streams of American Popular Music, Week 2 Minstrelsy; Early Pop; Ragtime; Dance; Early Jazz (1880s-1910s), Week 3 : The 1920s and 1930s...
Lucia Berlin, A Manual for Cleaning Women, "Teenage Punk", Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, Charles Dickens, Hard Time, "The one thing needful"...