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MUSIC 140

Popular Music and Culture

Undergraduate

Winter 2025

Topics

  • Western popular music
  • Precursors to postwar popular music
  • Styles and performers from 1945 to the early 1980s
  • Technology, economics, and demographics in music

Readings

  • What’s That Sound? An Introduction to Rock and Its History
    John Covach · 6th edition · required
  • Course listening list of popular songs supplied through LEARN.
    unspecified
Sources