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

FAIN: LB-50109-13

Hazard Community and Technical College (Hazard, KY 41701-2403)
Robert Campbell (Project Director: March 2012 to January 2013)
Cathy Branson (Project Director: January 2013 to October 2025)

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 projects major humanities themes.