The following texts are required and (except for the last one) can be purchased at the Vassar bookstore:

Patti Smith, Just Kids (Ecco, 2010).

Will Hermes, Love Goes to a Building on Fire: Five Years in New York that Changed Music Forever (Faber & Faber, 2012).

David Grazian, Blues Chicago: The Search for Authenticity in Urban Blues Clubs (University of Chicago Press, 2005).

Frank M. Young & David Lasky, The Carter Family: Don't Forget This Song (Abrams ComicArts, 2012).

Dan Hancox, Stand Up Tall: Dizzee Rascal and the Birth of Grime (Amazon Kindle, 2013).

Other readings can be accessed electronically through Moodle.