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

FAIN: LB-50123-13

Hill House Association (Pittsburgh, PA 15219-4305)
Terri Baltimore (Project Director: March 2012 to April 2022)

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 MUSIC TRADITIONS: BLUES AND GOSPEL, BROADWAY, JAZZ, BLUEGRASS AND COUNTRY, ROCK, AND MAMBO AND HIP HOP. IT WILL ALSO ENCOURAGE SCHOLAR-LED DISUCSSION ABOUT THE DOCUMENTARY FILMS AND THE PROJECT'S MAJOR HUMANITIES THEMES.