MUH 2019
(section 0001)
“American Popular Music”
(Spring 2016, Class # 11613)
Classroom Building I (CB1), Room 0104
12:00 noon-1:15 pm (Tues-Thurs)
Instructor: Scott Warfield
Associate Professor of Music History
Office: PAC M 227
Email: scott.warfield@ucf.edu
Syllabus
(& other Important Points)
• 3 credits - may count toward GEP # 2.B.
(check your catalog and speak to your advisor)
• Textbook & Other Materials
• Communication (email, web pages, etc.)
• Testing and Grading
• Class Procedures and Decorum, etc.
• Final Details (Academic Integrity, SDS, etc.)
Some Important Web Pages
• My home web page :
Scott Warfield's Home page
(google my name to find)
• MUH 2019 home web page :
MUH 2019 - "American Popular Music..."
- links to: Syllabus, Daily Assignments,
Publisher’s Web Site, (my) Review Sheets,
PowerPoint Slides, etc.
• “Bookmark” or add to your “Favorites”
TEXTBOOK
• REQUIRED
• 4th Edition ONLY
• UCF Bookstore or….?
- Buy
- Rent (?)
- Borrow (this edition)
• Download Access Card
(for 60 audio examples)
• REQUIRED
FRIENDLY ALERT
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Thursday, 14 January 2016, beginning of class
Short “Pre-Test” (no STUDYING required)
General background and music knowledge
Your Score irrelevant
Counts as “extra credit” for course (1-2 points)
Bring “Strawberry” scantrons and #2 pencil
Must complete to qualify for Financial Aid
“American Popular Music”
What is it?
“American”
United States of America (only)
What is “Popular”?
• from The Oxford English Dictionary
• Etymology: “classical Latin populāris
(adjective) of or belonging to the people as a
whole, belonging to or used by ordinary
people, available to the whole community, of
the common people, supporting or professing
to support the interests of the common people,
liked or admired by many people”
OED definitions (selected)
• 3a. Of, relating to, deriving from, or consisting
of ordinary people or the people as a whole;
generated by the general public; democratic.
• 4. Of cultural activities or products.
• 4a. Intended for or suited to the understanding
or taste of ordinary people, esp. as opposed to
specialists in a field; spec. (of literature, etc.)
intended for and directed at a general
readership.
• 4b. Adapted to the means of ordinary people;
low or moderate in price.
More OED definitions
• 7a. Liked or admired by many people, or by a
particular person or group.
• 7b. Designating forms of art, music, or culture
with general appeal; intended primarily to
entertain, please, or amuse. Cf. sense A. 4,
popular culture n.
• (Hint: “4” is best for this course)
Starr & Waterman define…
“In this book we use the term ‘popular music’
broadly to indicate music that is massreproduced and disseminated via the mass
media, that has at various times been listened
to by large numbers of Americans, and that
typically draws upon a variety of preexisting
musical traditions.”
(textbook, p. 6)
…thus, “popular music” is:
1. mass-produced and mass-disseminated
(requires some sort of technology)
2. listened to (“used” and “consumed”) by
large numbers of people (in the U.S.)
(now or in the past)
3. generally based on a variety of
(pre-existing) musical traditions
Five “Themes”
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Listening Critically
Music and Identity
Music and Technology
Music is a Business
Music has “Centers” and “Peripheries”
(places)
Friendly Alert (Again)
Thursday, 14 January 2016
PRE-TEST
Bring a
STRAWBERRY scantron
& # 2 pencil