Week

Topic

1

Songs of a new nation: colonial songs, psalms tunes, broadsides, Revolutionary war songs; early national ballads; first copyright law, political songs, sacred songs, roustabouts, War of 1812 songs, minstrel companies and early minstrel shows

2

Early American folk music: native American songs; English and Scottish airs, sea chanteys, mountain songs, Mexican War. and its songs, California Gold rush songs, songs of presidential campaigns, ballads and sentimental songwriting, Stephen Foster

3

Civil War songs; Crinoline days, temperance songs, anti-slavery songs, cowboy songs, railroad songs, vaudeville, early burlesque, extravaganzas, Tony Pastor, coal mine songs

4

Tin Pan Alley and the start of the modern music business: early music publishers, Union Square, songs and songwriters of Tin Pan Alley, Charles K. Harris; Paul Dresser, the gaslight era, nonsense songs, the cakewalk development of the early American music business; vaudeville singers; the phonograph record player and new recording technology

5

Ragtime, Scott Joplin, blues, early jazz, comic operas, early American operettas, influence of Gilbert and Sullivan, John Philip Sousa, Victor Herbert, Jelly Roll Morton, King Oliver, Kid Ory, American nationalism, Spanish-American War songs, armed forces songs

6

Songs, songwriters and singers of 1900-1910: George M. Cohan, the Von Tilzer brothers, Irving Berlin, Percy Wenrich, Joseph Lamb, women ragtime composers, Eubie Blake, sheet music, piano parlors, early record companies, musical comedies

7

Songs, songwriters and singers of the 1910s; World War I songs, performing rights and ASCAP, vaudeville, burlesque, Nora Bayes, Sophie Tucker, Gus Edwards, Gus Kahn, Bert Williams, Fred Astaire, Fanny Brice, Otto Harbach, Eddie Cantor, Al Jolson, Sigmund Romberg, Rudolf Friml

8

Songs, songwriters and singers of the 1920s; the "roaring twenties," 1920s dances, vaudeville songs, patriotic songs, novelty songs, Jerome Kern, "Showboat," George Gershwin, ''Rhapsody in Blue," Paul Whiteman, boogie woogie, Louis Armstrong, Earl "Fatha" Hines, Milton Ager, the Depression, Walter Donaldson, "Fats" Waller, Billie Holliday, W. C. Handy, George Meyer, Bessie Smith, Duke Ellington

9

Songs, songwriters and singers of the 1930s; repeal of the Prohibition, bars and jukeboxes, radio, dance bands, Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, Mills Brothers, Rudy Vallee, Maurice Chevalier, "Your Hit Parade," the record industry explodes, experimental television, Kate Smith, live radio shows, Hoagy Carmichael, J. Fred Coots, Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly, Burl Ives, country and western music, Grand Ole Opry

10

Songs, songwriters and singers of the 1940s; World War II songs, swing music, the Big Bands, Benny Goodman, Guy Lombardo, Isham Jones, Glen Miller, Gene Krupa, the Dorsey Brothers, Cab Calloway, Harry James, Frank Sinatra, Count Basie, Julie Styne, Artie Shaw, 1940s jazz

11

Songs, songwriters and singers of the 1950s: music publishing since Tin Pan Alley, Dinah Shore, Doris Day, Nat "King" Cole, Perry Como, Dean Martin, Mitch Miller, Sammy Cahn, Johnny Mathis, Elvis Presley, Bill Haley and the Comets, the Billboard record charts, Victor Young, the Emmy Award, payola scandels, Alan Freed, early rock ‘n’ roll, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Everly Brothers, Paul Anka

12

Songs, songwriters and singers of the 1960s; the British "invasion," the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Dave Clark Five, Herman's Hermit_~, Gilbert 0' Sullivan, the Doors, Three Dog Night; the Monkees, Mamas and Papas, Fifth Dimension, Laura Nyro, psychedelic rock, Bob Dylan and the folk music scene, Sam Cooke, Motown Records, Stevie Wonder, Neil Diamond, Burt Bacharach, Carole King, Neil Sedaka, Barbra Streisand

13

Broadway musicals, history of American theater, songs and composers of Hollywood, the beginnings of movies and the movie industry, early musical comedies, Vincent Youmans; Ziegfield Follies, Rodgers and Hart, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Cole Porter, De Sylva, Brown and Henderson, Harry Warren, Harold Arlen, Al Dubin, Sigmund Romberg, Kurt Weill, Dorothy Fields, Ethel Merman, Meredith Wilson, Lerner and Loewe, Burton Lane, Leonard Bernstein, Irving Berlin, Stephen Sondheim, Frank Loesser

14

Hollywood, television, and music: the beginnings of movies and the movie industry, silent movies, the "talkies," Hollywood composers, Max Steiner, Erich Korngold, Dmitri Tiomkin, Bernard Herrman, Elmer Bernstein, Henry Mancini, theme songs, background music, Alfred Newman, singing cowboys, early American television, American Bandstand, TV theme songs, television and radio jingles, Academy Award songs

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Final Examination