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

FAIN: LB-50115-13

Maine Museum of Innovation, Learning, and Labor (Lewiston, ME 04240-7740)
Kate Griffith (Project Director: March 2012 to present)

America's Music: A Film History of Our Popular Music from Blues to Bluegrass to Broadway is a six-week public program featuring documentary film screenings and scholar-led discussions of twentieth-century American popular music. The six sessions focus on these uniquely American musical genres: blues and gospel, Broadway, jazz, bluegrass and country, rock & roll, and mambo and hip hop. The project will provide DVDs of compelling documentary films, discussion guidelines, original essays by eminent scholars, extensive resource guides, and Web support.