The following texts are required and can be purchased at the Vassar bookstore:
Suzanne E. Smith, Dancing in the Street: Motown and the Cultural Politics of Detroit (Harvard University Press, 1999).
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).
Tim Lawrence, Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture, 1970-1979 (Duke University Press, 2003).
Other readings can be accessed electronically through Moodle.