The following texts are required and can be purchased at the Vassar bookstore :
Adam Krims, Music and Urban Geography (Routledge, 2007).
Lloyd Bradley, This is Reggae Music: The Story of Jamaica's Music (Grove Press, 2001). [a.k.a. Bass Culture: When Reggae Was King.]
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).
Joni Mitchell, Ladies of the Canyon (1970). [This is a music CD - required listening!]
Joshua Gamson, The Fabulous Sylvester: The Legend, the Music, the Seventies in San Francisco (Picador, 2006).
Lise A. Waxer, The City of Musical Memory: Salsa, Record Grooves, and Popular Culture in Cali, Columbia (Wesleyan University Press, 2002).
Other readings can be accessed electronically through Blackboard or directly from links on the course schedule.