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

FAIN: LB-50084-12

Eastern Illinois University (Charleston, IL 61920-3099)
Allen K. Lanham (Project Director: March 2012 to present)

America's Music is a six-week public program featuring documentary film screenings and scholar-led discussions of twentieth-century American popular music. The grantee will present six programs these uniquely American musical traditions: blues and gospel, Broadway, jazz, bluegrass and country, rock and mambo and hip hop. It will also encourage scholar-let discussion about the documentary fils and the project' major humanities themes.