The following texts are required and can be purchased at the Vassar bookstore, except for Levy's Ready, Steady, Go!
Adam Krims, Music and Urban Geography (Routledge, 2007).
Ken Emerson, Always Magic in the Air: The Bomp and Brilliance of the Brill Building Era (Penguin, 2006).
Shawn Levy, Ready, Steady, Go! The Smashing Rise and Giddy Fall of Swinging London (Doubleday, 2002). [eBook] [Amazon] [Half.com]
Barney Hoskyns, Hotel California: The True-Life Adventures of Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young, Mitchell, Taylor, Browne, Rondstadt, Geffen, the Eagles, and Their Many Friends (Wiley, 2007).
Peter Shapiro, Turn the Beat Around: The Secret History of Disco (Faber & Faber, 2006).
Legs McNeil & Gillian McCain, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk (Penguin 1997).
Jeff Chang, Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation (Picador, 2005).
David Grazian, Blue Chicago: The Search for Authenticity in Urban Blues Clubs (University of Chicago Press, 2005).
Other readings can be accessed electronically through Blackboard or directly from links on the course schedule.
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