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

FAIN: LB-50099-13

City of Pensacola-West Florida Public Library (Pensacola, FL 32502-4822)
Dondie Roper (Project Director: March 2012 to March 2013)
Beth Freeman (Project Director: March 2013 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 the documentary films and the project's major humanities themes.