COMM 0111 - The Fall Rock

Institution:

University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus

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Description:

This course is an examination of trends in American popular music culture from 1970 to today. While we will examine rock songs as social, political and musical documents, a principal concern will be how the mass media in general and technological innovation in particular have affected – if not determined – the nature and kinds of popular music that have characterized the last quarter of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st. This course’s title derives from the belief that after rock and roll became the dominant form of popular music after World War II, the age of rock held center stage from about 1970 until the mid-90s. At that time, peer-to-peer file sharing and the rise of hip-hop culture combined to fundamentally alter the landscape, inaugurating a new phase of popular culture and signaling the "fall" of rock

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.pitt.edu

Phone Number:

(412) 624-4141

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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