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Course Outline

Last Updated: May-30-06

Course Identification: MUS105 3 Credits
Course Title: Introduction to Rock Music
Total Instructional Hours: for the course per term
Lecture: 36 Hours
Laboratory:  		3 Credits
0 Credits
Prerequisite
Course(s): 		None
Required Text: Not listed here. Go to: http://bookstore.chemeketa.edu/ to find out the current textbook requirement.
Course Description: Examines the relationship between rock music and society. Emphasizes the musical and lyrical significance of rock music as contemporary social commentary.
Performance Based Learner Outcomes: To provide an understanding of rock music as a form of social commentary and a mirror of the society for which it emanates.
Course Content:
  1. Week 1: Elements of Music -- Social Setting of the 50's
    1. Racial Relations
    2. Brown vs. Board of Education
    3. Race Records vs. Cover Records
  2. Week 2: Blues and Rhythm and Blues
    1. The Early Rockers: Bill Haley
    2. Elvis Presley
  3. Week 3: Chuck Berry
    1. Buddy Holly
    2. Rock Music and Impact Around the World
  4. Week 4: Doo-wop
    1. Teen Tdols
    2. Teenage Subculture
    3. Midterm #1
  5. Week 5: The Teenager - Cars - Records
    1. Surfing music
    2. Folk Music and Social Conmentary
    3. Folk to Folk/Rock
  6. Week 6: The New Global Awareness
    1. The British invasion
    2. The Beatles
    3. The Stones
    4. The Who
  7. Week 7: The 60's as a Turbulent Society
    1. Social Activism and the Role of Music
    2. R & B to Soul
    3. The Drug Culture - Psychedelic Music
  8. Week 8: Midterm #2
    1. Music, Society, and Commercialism
    2. The World View of Rock Music - International Stars
    3. The Rise of Metal
    4. Theatrical Rock and the Touring Stage Shows
  9. Week 9: New Social Protest - British Punk
    1. Jamaican Reqqae
    2. Commercializinq of Style - New Wave
    3. Rock/Jazz/Country/Classical - Crossovers
  10. Week 10: Papers or Oral Project Due
    1. The 80's and the Superstars
    2. Technology Explosions and the Music Industry
  11. Week 11: Final
Methods of Instruction: Guided listening and lecture/discussion on how musical and lyrical elements of style are a mirror and/or shaper of our society, both nationally and internationally. Part of the listening assignments in the library are videos showing the music, social trends, and political perspectives.
Methods of Evaluation: Two midterms, final, oral report or written paper, and weekly listening assignments in the library.
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