Sociology of Music
Sociology 3300

Spring 2005


Syllabus	Notes	Supplemental Material	Links

This page is intended as a study help for thosetaking the Sociology of Music Course. There will be Supplemental Material in addition to the Syllabus and some Internet Links. This page will be updated as needed. Please refer to it often!

Syllabus

Syllabus for Spring 2005

Text:

There is no text for this class. There will be assigned readings.

Beginning of Popular Music

Nursery Rhymes
British History andNursery Rhymes
Origins of Nursery Rhymes
Influences on AmericanPhrases
Student paper on history of Nursery Rhymes
Commentary on Poems
Nursery Rhymes with Music Files
Nursery Songs and Engravings (music files)
Mama Lisa's Children'sSongs around the world (some with midi files)
Mother GoosePage (If only the music and history links worked!)
HPD NurseryRhymes (21 Midi files)
Zelo NurseryRhymes (just words)
The Real Mother Goose
Nursery Rhymes (Nice Graphics)
Music from the Past
Ancient Greek Music
MusicFiles of Gregorian Chants
Gregorian ChantsLinks
GregorianChant with written music and audio file
Early Music FAQ
Early Music Midis
Folk Music of Britain and US
Taylor's Tune Book
Readings
Rise and Fall of Popular Music by Clark
American Popular Song by Howard Becker 1994.
Broadside Ballads
John Gay and the Beggar's Opera
Microencyclopedia of Folk Music
Composers
Thomas D'Urfey (1653-1723)   Charles Dibdin (1745-1814)
Thomas Moore (1779-1852)   Francis J. Child (1825-1896)
William Percy French (1854-1920)
Histories
Women in the Revolutionary Era    History of Highwaymen   History of Grog
Short Biographies of Famous Highwaymen     History of important events
Another accounting of songs popular in the US prior to 1800s (click on songs)
Sources for Music Listening
Popular US Songs prior to 1800 (Explanation)
Music from 1800-1860 PDMusic
Contemplator Site Good History

Music Listening
1500s The Woods so Wilde
1600? The Bold Peddler and Robin Hood
1620-52 Greensleeves Another version
1620-60 Barbara Allen   Another version       One more version
1630 Farmer’s Curst Wife
1672 Oh no John
1670-80 Lavendar’s Blue
1700 A Frog Went A-Courting
1700s I Know where I’m Going
1700s Katy Cruel
1728 A Fox May Steal your Hen, Sir Beggar's Opera
1728 Over the Hills and Far Away Beggar's Opera
1754 Yankee Doodle
1758   The Girl I left behind me
1760-70s Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes      Another version
1784 All through the night
1785 The Riddle
1792 I’m Seventeen Come Sunday
1795 O! Dear, What Can The Matter Be?
1800s Billy Boy
1800s Blow the man down
1802 The Wife of Usher’s Well
1823 No Place LIke Home   Words
1850s The Scottish Emigrant’s Farewell
1850s House Carpenter
1858   Rolling Home
1870s New York Girls
1877 Adbul Abulbul Amir
1890 The Female Highwayman
1890s Jesse James
1900s Casey Jones

American Music - Minstrels

1. Stephen Foster
Stephen Foster on PBS(with music files)
Stephen FosterCollection (with Midis)
Stephen Foster Homepage
Links to other Stephen Foster Site
Good history of Stephen Foster
2. James Bland
A Short History of James Bland
3. Minstrel Shows
BlackFaceMinstrelsy
African American Music in Stephen Foster's Time
Blackface Minstrelsy
Coon Songs

Sheet Music of Minstrel Songs
http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/contactsheets/Box017.html
http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/contactsheets/Box018.html
http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/contactsheets/Box020.html
http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/contactsheets/Box022.html
http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/contactsheets/Box023.html
http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/contactsheets/Box024.html
http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/contactsheets/Box025.html

Other Sheet Music
Brown Univ African American Sheet Music
Terms in African American Sheet Music

4. Banjo
Thumbnail History of the Banjo by Reese
A Brief History of the Classic Banjo
A Short History by Mick Maloney
Banjo History
Banjo History (short)
Music Listening

Minstrel Songs - words and music

1829 The Jim Crow Song Words Another version
1834 Turkey in the Straw/Zip Coon   Words Another Version
1835   Long long ago     Another version Words
1842   We won't go home till the morning    Words
1844   Jimmy Crack Corn and I Don't Care Words (dialect)
1844   Blue Tail Fly    Words
1844   Buffalo Gals Words Another version

1848 Oh Suzanna (SF)   Words
1850   Nellie Bly (SF)   Words
1850   Camptown Races (SF)   Words
1851   Wait for the Wagon   Words Another version
1851   Swanee River (SF)   Words
1853   My Old Kentucky Home (SF) Words
1854   Hard Times Comin' No More (SF)   Words
1854   I Dream of Jeanie (SF)   Words
1855   Listen to the Mockingbird    Words
1857   Jingle Bells     Words
1858   Yellow Rose of Texas   Words Another version
1859   Pop goes the Wesael   Words
1860   Dixie Words
1860   Old Black Joe (SF)   Words)
1862   Beautiful Dreamer (SF)   Words
1866   When You and I were young Maggie Words
1867   Man on the Flying Trapeze   Words
1875   Carve that Possum    Another version      Words
1876   I'll Take you home again Kathleen    Words
1878   Carry Me Home to Old Virginny (JB)   Words
1879   In the Morning bythe Bright Light (JB)    Words
1879   Oh Dem Golden Slippers (JB)     Words
1880   De Golden Wedding (JB)   Words
1880s The Bully Song (from Sheet music)
More Stephen Foster

1. Stephen FosterCollection (with Midis)
2. Some more Stephen Foster Listening

    Click on Foster the Songwriter
     Click on Ethiopian Minstrel - Play any song there
     Click on Plantation Melodies - Play any song there
     Click on Hymns - Play any song there
     Click on Music Hall - Play My Wife is a Most Knowing Woman
Other American Composer
Bluegrass Music (just to compare)
Banjo Bob Mando Bluegrass
Pik ware (go to midi links half way down the page)