LB-50069-12 | Public Programs: Small Grants to Libraries: America's Music | Mississippi State University | America's Music: A Film History of Our Popular Music from Blues to Bluegrass to Broadway | 8/1/2012 - 12/31/2013 | $2,500.00 | Stephen | H. | Cunetto | | | | Mississippi State University | Mississippi State | MS | 39762-5227 | USA | 2012 | U.S. History | Small Grants to Libraries: America's Music | Public Programs | 2500 | 0 | 2500 | 0 |
America's Music is a six-week 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. |