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

FAIN: LB-50026-12

Public Library of Des Moines (Des Moines, IA 50308)
Kevin Charles Kretschmer (Project Director: March 2012 to present)

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 documentary films and the project's major humanities themes.