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

FAIN: LB-50129-13

Washington Center for the Performing Arts (Olympia, WA 98501-1330)
Kevin Boyer (Project Director: March 2012 to September 2014)
Anne Larsen Matheson (Project Director: September 2014 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.