MusH440-540: Studies in American Music: AMERICAN ROOTS Spring 2007
Course Description and Requirements
This course is about vernacular musical traditions in the United States: folk music from the Anglo-American and African-American traditions, popular music, religious music, musical theater, and, to an extent, cultivated music that has been influenced by traditions.
Daily assignments will involve listening to recordings, viewing films, reading from the text (Richard Crawford's An Introduction to America's Music) as well as scholarly articles and other sources..
There will be a series of brief written assignments (a total of 15-20 pages for the semester). These must be typed, and are due at the beginning of class on the date indicated.
The class Web Site--www.class.uidaho.edu/mush440_540--includes the syllabus, assignments, related web sites. Daily assignments are here, under "week".
Your class participation grade will be determined by attendance and evidence of preparation for discussion. . There will be two tests and a final summary project in lieu of a final exam. Written assignments, participation, and tests have equal weight (1/3 each) in determining the final grade
Graduate Students: You should write a total of four article summaries in the course of the semester, and be prepared to make short reports to the class from time to time.
RESOURCES
A valuable reference tool for the study of American music, although somewhat outdated, is the New Grove Dictionary of American Music (in the Schuldt Library). The New Grove Dictionary of Music 2nd Edition is on line (accessible on-campus) and is the best current reference work on music: www.grovemusic.com
Your text book has two companion volumes which are on Reserve: To Stretch Our Ears: A Documentary History of American Music, and America's Musical Life: A History, which has the same chapter structure as the text book, but goes into greater depth. There are also surveys of American music by Gilbert Chase, Charles Hamm and H. Wiley Hitchcock on Reserve.. UnCover and Expanded Academic Index—on-line periodical searches through IDA—are the best way to access current writings in newspapers and magazines on all subjects. America, History and Life is a useful on-line database index on American topics, including music.
The Schuldt Library has recordings and listening facilities, basic reference works, and a Reserve system. The catalogue to the CD collection is available on the computer across the room from the door; this catalogue is also available online:
http://www.class.uidaho.edu/music/schu.asp#l. LP's are accessible through the card catalogue.The single most important source of recordings of U.S. music is the New World Records Recorded Anthology of American Music—I will give you a Xerox listing the first 100 records in the series. They are accessible in the library by asking for NW and then the number as listed in the handout. The Index to the New World Records by Davis ( Ref. ML 156.9/D38 in the U.I. Library) is a more complete analytical index. A few other key collections: A270-272--Anthology of American Folk Music; A203--The Folk Box; A381 The Smithsonian Collection of Country Music; cd 93-97 The Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz, and The Smithsonian Collection of Classic American Song (a cassette collection with no number).
My office hours are 10:30 T-W-Th and 1:30 T and Th.. You are welcome to contact me by e-mail
(mdupree@uidaho.edu)or my office phone (885-7557)Syllabus: Streamed Listening
ANGLO AMERICAN FOLK SONG
Traditional
Pretty Saro
Doug and Jack Wallin
Traditional
The House Carpenter
Clarence Ashley
Traditional
John Hardy Was a Desperate Man
The Carter Family
Traditional
Irish Washerwoman
THE UNFORTUNATE RAKE AND VARIANTS (through Gambler's Blues)
Traditional
The Unfortunate Rake
A.L. Lloyd
Traditional
The Trooper Cut Down In His Prime
Ewan MacLoll
Traditional
The Young Sailor Cut Down In His Prime
Harry Cox
Traditional
The Bad Girl's Lament
Wade Hemsworth
Traditional
One Morning In May
Hally Wood
Traditional
The Girl In the Dilger Case
D.K. Wilgus
Traditional
The Cowboy's Lament
Bruce Buckley
Traditional
Streets of Laredo
Harry Jackson
Traditional
St. James Hospital
Alan Lomax
Traditional
Gambler's Blues
Dave Van Ronk
ANGLO AMERICAN RELIGIOUS MUSIC
Traditional
Old 100
Old Baptist
On Jordan's Stormy Banks
William Billings
Chester
Daniel Reed
Sherburne
William Billings
Thanksgiving Anthem
Mason
Olivet
Anonymous
Wondrous Love
Oliver Holden
Cowper
Word of Mouth Chorus
anonymous
Shall We Gather at the River
The Boston Camerata; Joel Cohen, director
AFRICAN AMERICAN RELIGIOUS MUSIC
Traditional
Reg'lar, Reg'lar, Rollin' Under
Georgia Sea Island Singers
Traditional
Ain't I Right
Georgia Sea Island Singers
Traditional
Sign of the Judgement
McIntosh County Singers
Traditional
O Death
Georgia Sea Island Singers
Traditional
Beulah Land
Georgia Sea Island Singers
Traditional
Deep River
Tuskegee Institute Choir
Traditional
Go Down Moses
Paul Robeson
Nineteenth Century Popular Song
Bishop
Home, Sweet Home
Amelita Galli-Curci, soprano; Homer Samuel, piano
Foster
De Camptown Races
Frederick Urrey; John Van Buskirk
J.P. Carter
Lucy Neal
The Early Minstrel Show
Foster
Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair
Julianne Baird, Linda Russell, Steve Schneider
Root
The Battle Cry of Freedom
Gregg Smith Singers
Sawyer
Weeping, Sad and Lonely
The Hutchinson Family Singers
J. Holloway
Wood Up Quick Step
Chestnut Brass
Unknown
Listen to the Mocking Bird
Chestnut Brass
John Philip Sousa
Semper Fidelis
United States Marine Band; Captain Taylor Branson (1927)
John Philip Sousa
The Stars and Stripes Forever
United States Marine Band
Traditional
Sweet Betsy From Pike
Logan English
Early 20th Century Stage Music
George M. Cohan
I'm a Yankee Doodle Boy
Herbert
I'm Falling in Love with Someone (John McCormack, tenor)
Will Marion Cook
Swing Along
Center for Black Music Research Repertory Ensemble
Ragtime, Blues, and Tin Pan Alley Songs up to 1930
Scott Joplin
Bethena, A Concert Waltz
Joshua Rifkin, piano
Irving Berlin
Alexander's Ragtime Band
Boswell Sisters
Irving Berlin
That Mysterious Rag
Ben Sears, voice; Brad Connor, piano
Traditional
Po' Boy Blues
John Dudley
Gus Kahn and Walter Donaldson
Yes, Sir! That's My Baby!
George Whiting and Walter Donaldson
My Blue Heaven
Gene Austin
James Cavanaugh and Harry Barris
Mississippi Mud
The Rhythm Boys with Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra
W.C. Handy
St. Louis Blues
George Gershwin
Rhapsody in Blue
Paul Whiteman Orchestra; George Gershwin, piano
The Musical in the Second Quarter of the 20th Century
Jerome Kern
Can't Help Lovin' dat Man
Helen Morgan
George Gershwin
The Man I Love
Ella Fitzgerald
Richard Rodgers (and Oscar Hammerstein, lyrics)
Kansas City
Out of My Dreams
Oklahoma
Hillbilly and Country Music
A.P. Carter
Can the Circle Be Unbroken
The Carter Family
Jimmie Rodgers
Blue Yodel #9
Jimmie Rodgers
Bill Monroe
It's Mighty Dark to Travel
Bill Monroe and His Bluegrass Boys
Woody Guthrie
So Long, It's Been Good to Know You
Woody Guthrie
Hank Williams
I'm So Lonesome I Could Die
Hank Williams
Miller
It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels
Kitty Wells
African-American Religious Music in the 20th Century
Thomas Dorsey
Talk About Jesus
Marion Williams
Traditional
Wade in the Water
Golden Gate Quartet
Traditional
Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho
Golden Gate Quartet
Traditional
Wade in the Water
Sweet Honey in the Rock
Mid Twentieth-Century Popular Music
Lewis Jordan
Choo Choo Ch'Boogie
Leiber/Stoller
Hound Dog, Big Mama Thornton
Elvis Presley
Don't Be Cruel
Steiner-Hawes
M.T.A.
The Kingston Trio
Coots-Kenny-Kenny
Love Letters in the Sand
Pat Boone
Puentes
Oye como va, Santana
Dylan, Bob
Blowin' in the Wind, Bob Dylan
Robinson/White
My Girl, The Supremes
Redding
Respect, Aretha Franklin
Wynton Marsalis
Devotional
Wynton Marsalis