MUB 2021 Pop Songs & the Music Business
This course will offer a comprehensive survey of the product of the music business--pop songs, as well as the creators and talent behind them. The subject matter will include all genres and hybrids of American popular music including: easy listening, patriotic, country and western, hillbilly, bluegrass, folk, Latin, salsa, jazz, bubble gum, rock 'n roll, hard rock, punk rock, grunge rock, rhythm and blues, disco, rap, and hip hop. Students learn about the structure and form of pop songs and lyrics and how these elements have changed over the years; the singers and bands who made the songs popular; how and where new songs were introduced in the early years of the American music business; and how new and evolving genres of songs changed the music business.