Taught by Simon Wood, who is teaching part-time. This course is really like a story-telling course. It’s extremely interesting. In this pandemic version, only four term test, each of them covers 3 weeks’ contents. If you really paid attention to the material, marks will not be bad. Also, you will be interested in his music 246.

These notes trace the evolution of popular music from 1945 to the present. Topics include the post-war music industry (Pop, Race, Hillbilly categories), Tin Pan Alley songwriting, the origins of rock and roll, African American musical traditions (blues, gospel, rhythm and blues), the British Invasion, psychedelic rock, disco, punk, hip-hop, and the impact of technology on music production and distribution.