First-Year Seminar: Music and Downtown, New York, 1950-1970
Posted in First Year Seminars/First Year Matters, Uncategorized on Jun. 26, 2014 by mmelendez
Music and Downtown, New York, 1950-1970 This course will explore the history, interconnections, and simultaneous flourishing of four distinct music communities that inhabited and shaped downtown New York during two particularly rich decades in American culture: Euro-American experimentalists; African American jazz-based avant-garde; blues and folk revivalists; and Lower East Side rock groups. Much of the […]