LB-50076-12 | Public Programs: Small Grants to Libraries: America's Music | City of San Jose | America's Music: A Film History of Our Popular Music from Blues to Bluegrass to Broadway | 8/1/2012 - 12/31/2013 | $2,500.00 | Pam | | Crider | | | | City of San Jose | San Jose | CA | 95112-3580 | USA | 2012 | U.S. History | Small Grants to Libraries: America's Music | Public Programs | 2500 | 0 | 2500 | 0 |
America's Music is a six-week public program featuring documentary film screenings and scholar-led discussions about 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. It will also encourage scholar-led discussion about the documentary films and the project's major humanities themes. |