HistoryofRock’n’Roll
Professor WILLIAM McKEEN
Office: 131 COM; Phone: 353-3484 Email: wmckeen@ bu.edu Office hours: Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, 1:30 - 3 pm and by appointment Home page: williammckeen.com Twitter: @wmckeen
emphasis on rock 'n' roll and its impact on America in the last 40 years, especially the 1954-1970 era. Ersel Hickey, the quintessence of Although this early rock’n’roll. course is a lot of fun, it is not easy.
HI 280 Summer 2019 There is a lot of work.
We have one required book: the course:
✓ William McKeen, Rock and Roll is Here to Stay About this course industry in the United States, (W.W. Norton, 2000). but focus most of our energies This course examines the role on tracing the threads of For those of you who are of popular music in American mainstream music during the music geeks, I culture. 20th century. recommended these two:
We will attempt to integrate It is not a music course, but ✓ Charlie Gillett, The Sound the general social and more of an examination of the of the City (Da Capo Press, effects of recorded sound on intellectual history of the 1996; second edition) popular culture. country into the story of popular music. ✓ Greil Marcus, Mystery We will study the origin and Train (Plume, 2000; fifth growth of the recording There will be a special edition)