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Arts & Entertainment

The American Songbook – A History of American Popular Music

This course explores American history through popular music and the social, economic and cultural factors that have contributed to different American musical traditions.

This semester we will continue our survey of American popular music of the 20th century, including jazz, rock, Broadway musicals, spirituals, the movies, folk song, ragtime and Tin Pan Alley.

Artists and composers covered will include Louis Armstrong, Bob Dylan, George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Bing Crosby, Judy Garland, The Band, Jimi Hendrix and many others!

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Continuous registration through Berkeley Adult School (-Sliding Scale- $35 per semester).

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