Summer 2025

Courses

Please note: MUS 50.11–13 (Performance Laboratory in Chamber Music) is offered every summer term, but IIP courses, other Performance Labs, and Hop Ensemble Performance and Leadership courses are not.

The full list of music courses we offer can be found on the Registrar's website, and the Timetable of Class Meetings is posted here.

MUS 45.14 | AMERICAN MUSIC: ROOTS AND REVOLUTIONARIES

Course description: This course explores diverse forms of American "roots" music—from country blues and Appalachian stringbands to ballads, shape-note singing, and the expressive culture of Arctic indigenous peoples—with the aim of understanding these musical practices on their own terms as well as their profound influence on American musical revolutionaries of the 20th and 21st centuries. Live music is central to the course, and attendance at musical events outside of regular class meetings is expected. Not open to students who have received credit for MUS 03.03
Instructor: Theodore Levin
Time: 10A
Location: Sudikoff 045