HISTORY OF ROCK AND ROLL (Grades 9-12)

HISTORY OF ROCK AND ROLL (Grades 9-12)
(MUS8024)

This course provides an overview of the history and development of rock and roll music.  Students discuss and learn the elements of music that contribute to the rock style as well as the important historical and political events that influenced artists and their music.  The course begins with the emergence of rock and roll and chronologically addresses rock music through the present.  Styles of rock music include Fifties, Sixties, British Invasion, Folk, Soul, Motown, San Francisco, Art, Jazz, Seventies, Eighties and current trends.