Write essays on SIX of the TEN following topics (10 points e…

Write essays on SIX of the TEN following topics (10 points each). I will grade your essay on its reflection of the readings, lectures, and discussions. Define “American music” as used in this course and tell its history in a brief narrative. Relate the music of Charles Ives to its context in early-20th-century America, art music, and music history. Describe how and why Americans collected and performed folk song before 1940. Characterize the musical style and cultural context of Duke Ellington, Count Basie, and William Grant Still. Characterize the postwar developments of country, bluegrass, folk, and gospel music. Evaluate how youth culture and an inter-generational moral shift affected the rise of rock and roll. Compare how Broadway and jazz began to achieve permanence in the 1950s. Explain how rock critics and totalist composers since 1960 have treated the gap between musical accessibility and transcendence. Relate the story of American art music from 1900 to the present. Sketch the development of American popular music from 1900 to the present.