User Script

Classic Rock: Popular Music of the Sixties and Seventies
Fall 2013

Course no. MUSC 423
Section no. 47225D
Units: 2
Time: M 6 – 7:50 pm
Room: THH 202

Course instructor: Bill Biersach
Instructor’s office: MUS 316
Instructor’s office hours: MW 9 – 10:30 am
Office phone: [phone]
Instructor’s email: [e-mail]

Teaching assistants: Julia Adolphe and McKay Tebbs

Introduction and Purpose

This course will familiarize the student with a broad spectrum of musical styles that were popular between the years 1962 and 1973. The intent is to inform the student regarding the recording technologies available and the business practices in place at the time, the origin of a wide variety of styles and specific recording acts, and an understanding of the underlying social, economic, political, and cultural issues that gave rise to them. The goal is to imbue the student with an appreciation for this music that has survived four decades and continues to find a niche in popular culture.

Instructional Strategy

Each week the professor will present a lecture for the first hour of the class. Musical examples will be played, brief bios of the artists will be provided, and styles will be explored.

The second hour of the class will be devoted to pertinent film clips and discussion of the texts led by the teaching assistants.

Grades

The course grade will be determined by averaging the three exam scores. (33 percent + 33 percent +34 percent)

Each midterm and the final exam will have two parts. The first part will be written by the professor and will be based on the lectures. The second part will be written by the teaching assistants and will be based on the texts and the discussions regarding them.

A 94-100% C 74-76%
A- 90-93% C- 70-73%
B+ 87-89% D+ 67-69%
B 84-86% D 64-66%
B- 80-83% D- 60-63%
C+ 77-79% F 0-59%

Texts

The required text this semester will be:

Rock Music Styles, 6th Edition, by Katherine Charlton;

Bibliography: Bradelius, Jerilyn Lee The Grateful Dead Family Album Warner Books, New York, 1989 Billboard Publications, New York, 1988 ISBN 0-85112-396-1 Cianc, Bob Great Rock Drummers of the Sixties Hal Leonard Publishing Corp., Milwaukee, 1989 (editor) Viking Press, New York, 1989 ISBN 0-670-80349-9 Clifford, Mike The Harmony Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock Harmony Books, New York, 1988 Warner Books, New York, 1985 ISBN 0-446-38630-8 New York, 2012 ISBN-13: 978-0-393-91204-3 Crosby, David and Long Time Gone: The Autobiography of David Crosby Gottlieb, Carl Dell Publishers, New York, 1990 Shapolsky Publishers, New York, 1987 ISBN 0-933503-88-1 Davis, Stephen Hammer of the Gods: The Led Zeppelin Saga Ballentine Books, New York, 1985 Faber & Faber, Boston, 1989 ISBN 0-571-15380-1 Delacorte Press, New York, 1990 ISBN 0-385-3033-6 Dylan, Bob Lyrics: 1962 – 1985 Knopf (Random House), New York, 1985 ISBN 0-394-54278-9 Dylan, Bob The Songs of Bob Dylan, 1966 – 1975 Knopf (Random House), New York, 1978 ISBN 0-394-40888-8 St. Martin’s Press, New York, 1985 ISBN 0-312-61630-9 Garafalo. Reebee Rockin’ Out: Popular Music in the USA, (Fourth Edition) Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2008 Bantam Books, New York, 1987 ISBN 0-553-05233-0 Hoffman, Abbe The Best of Abbe Hoffman Four Walls Eight Windows, New York, 1989 The Rolling Stones and the Death of the Sixties Simon & Schuster, New York, 1990 (editor) Billboard Publications, New York, 1989 ISBN 0-8230-7608-3 Leary, Timothy The Politics of Ecstasy Ronin Publishing, Berkeley, 1990 Images of America in Rock ’n’ Roll Times Obelisk (Dutton), New York, 1975 St. Martin’s Press, New York, 1983 ISBN 0-679-72198-3