Program

Public Programs: Small Grants to Libraries: America's Music

Period of Performance

12/1/2012 - 7/31/2014

Funding Totals

$1,500.00 (approved)
$1,500.00 (awarded)


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

FAIN: LB-50128-13

University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (Edinburg, TX 78539-2909)
Virginia Haynie Gause (Project Director: March 2012 to March 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 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.