Primarily for juniors and qualified sophomores. To gain an understanding of how British popular music went from being an imitation of American pop music in the mid-1950s to an object of American imitation by the mid 1960s. To gain an appreciation of the diversity and the consistency of early 1960s British Rock and Pop. Goals To develop an integrated stylistic description of this music. To correlate musical data with social data.
Methods Combine the tools of musical and ethnographic analysis in understanding a musical style.