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

FAIN: LB-50024-12

Ann Arbor District Library (Ann Arbor, MI 48104-2217)
Tim Grimes (Project Director: March 2012 to present)

America's Music is a 6-week public program featuring documentary film screenings and scholar-led discussions about twentieth-century American popular music. The grantee will present 6 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.