The course will be a series of historical case studies looking at the development of genres of popular music in the United States between about 1947 and about 1967, with occasional chronological deviations, in specific places at specific times. Examples will include Post war Rhythm and Blues; The Music of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-65; The Early 1960s, including Brill Building Pop, Motown and Stax Soul, and the Greenwich Village Folk Scene; 1965-1967: Folk Rock, Psychedelic Rock, the countercultural scenes in LA and San Francisco. Many of the issues and ideas we will entertain are still directly relevant today, and you will have opportunities to extend them to more recent development if you wish.