American Music Melting Pot

Explore stories of jazz, blues, and rock and how immigrants impacted popular culture. Discover the fertile interaction between minorities who transformed the music and entertainment industry of the 20th century. Strong audiovisuals and anecdotes from the instructor’s experience as a concert promoter bring the most relevant singers, performers, producers, record labels, and booking agencies to life. Learn how the key jazz standards and the Great American Songbook were built by artists like Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Benny Goodman, and Stan Getz. Examine how their legacy influenced Leiber and Stoller, Bob Dylan, Barbra Streisand, Lou Reed, Leonard Cohen, Kiss, Slash, and many more. This is a Zoom class.