Join Professor Craig Boyd, a recipient of the prestigious New York State Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities, as he examines the evolution of Rock and Roll Music. The program will take a comprehensive look at the Genesis and Evolution of Rock & Roll Music. It will piece together major events in history that set the stage to spawn the seeds and perpetuation of this unique American music.
Through the study of vocal techniques – delivery, rhythm developments, important historical events, social and political trends, instrumentation, improvisational techniques, listening analysis of musical forms and genres:
Work Songs
Spirituals
Gospel
The Blues
Boogie Woogie
Rhythm & Blues
Hillbilly -Country Western
Rockabilly
Pop – Tin Pan Alley
Soft Rock
Mainstream Rock
SAT MAY 4
At The East Hampton Library
1-2:30 PM