America's Music: A Film History of Our Popular Music from Blues to Bluegrass to Broadway

FAIN: LB-50070-12

Poughkeepsie Public Library District (Poughkeepsie, NY 12601-4029)
Debora Shon (Project Director: March 2012 to present)

America's Music is a six-week series of public programs featuring documentary film screenings and scholar-led discussions of twentieth-century American popular music. The grantee will present six programs on these uniquely American musical traditions: blues and gospel, Broadway, jazz, bluegrass and country, rock, and mambo and hip hop.