Week 1
W Apr 3 African Music: Jalikundra African Drums: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZHfmgIb4mc; Griot Tradition of West African: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdrPmZwsXiM&list=PL3dQvKqt0OOqK2q12_RiUkpq5SQsnEzFp&index=14

F  Apr 5 Early secular music: “I Be So Glad … When the Sun Goes Down”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-zlSq4mWiE; “Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPuBGcng6Tw&list=PLcfD5QJjclwHJG4_6dovStNqyXjpy513l&index=4;

Week 2
M Apr 8 Spirituals: Plantation Dance Ring Shout:  https://youtu.be/NQgrIcCtys0; https://youtu.be/DOJj_MNIBUg Spirituals: https://www.historyonthenet.com/authentichistory/1600-1859/3-spirituals/index.html

W Apr 10 Ragtime: Library of Congress Cake Walk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QifiyNm6jG4; Scott Joplin: “Swipesy (Cake Walk)”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeVfesWPkbU; “Maple Leaf Rag”: https://youtu.be/pMAtL7n_-rc; Tom Turpin, “Harlem Rag”: https://youtu.be/WMdU_AiOgk0; Adaline Shepherd, “Pickles and Peppers”: https://youtu.be/YRFiV_m13pQ

F Apr 12 Minstrelsy: “Long Tail Blue”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhWNih52YiA; Stephen Foster, “Old Uncle Ned”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7S7zJIMtq0; “Oh Susanna”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSIj17xbAyk; “Old Folks at Home”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksBcIEJ822Y; Daniel Emmett, “Dixie”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFNr9FnpZBk;

George Washington Dixon, “Zip Coon”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDbfJDTiuJw; T.D. Rice, “Jim Crow”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALTam2L9NhE

Week 3

M Apr 15 Minstrelsy: Bert Williams and George Walker, “I Don’t Like that Face You Where”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T9aET7N5Yw&t=19s; “My Little Zulu Babe”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTPMwR7i-Bg

W Apr 17 Women’s “Classic” Blues and Early Jazz: Kid Ory, “Panama Rag”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjMXOcH1ZMM; King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band, “Chimes Blues”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpxXFg1_H7g; Louis Armstrong, “West End Blues”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WPCBieSESI;   Mamie Smith, “Crazy Blues”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaz4Ziw_CfQ; Ma Rainey, “Prove It on My Blues”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRyaUcVfhak

F Apr 19 Early Blues: Bessie Smith with Louis Armstrong, “St. Louis Blues”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rd9IaA_uJI; Lonnie Johnson, “Falling Rain Blues”;  “Broken Levee Blues”; Blind Lemon Jefferson, “Matchbox Blues”; Leroy Carr and Scrapper Blackwell, “Midnight Hour Blues”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4_b_3ddIL4; Tampa Red and Georgia Tom, “It’s Tight Like That”: https:youtu.be/5_vSXGER9gM

Week 4
M Apr 22 Recording Music and Race: George Johnson, “The Whistling Coon”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVYHSlEssYY; “The Laughing Song”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yvOMwHsh1A; Fisk Jubilee Singers, “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUvBGZnL9rE

W Apr 24 Blues Migration: Chicago McKinley Morganfield, “Country Blues”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCL_LpOlTYA; Muddy Waters, “I Can’t Be Satisfied” ; “I Feel Like Going Home,” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EoDHWqPhbU; “(I’m Your) Hoochie Coochie Man,” https://youtu.be/AFxrLOVwsEE

F Apr 26 Blues Migration: Memphis, Texas, and West Coast: B. B. King, “Three O’Clock Blues”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPeTtg3fTB8; “Everyday I Have the Blues”: https://youtu.be/jWEeL__sMN0?si=2SUg9xj-TS0QNaLy; Big Joe Turner, “Flip, Flop and Fly”: https://youtu.be/aNpvOUmXglM?si=S2-NO1t9JBBzm-Y3; “Shake, Rattle and Roll”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9wTQsAgktg; T-Bone Walker, “Call It Stormy Monday”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpK2GDUbXv8; “T-Bone Shuffle”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GsRzqbRvus

Week 5
M Apr 29 Jazz: Swing: Duke Ellington and his Kentucky Club Orchestra, “East St. Louis Toodle-Oo”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_Y0cJ-aEbY; Duke Ellington and his Famous Orchestra, “Take the A Train”: https://youtu.be/aG4Tte6XGkA; Count Basie and his Orchestra, “One O’Clock Jump”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3JyQnYPkZk; Billie Holiday and Count Basie Orchestra, “They Can’t Take that Away from Me”: https://youtu.be/4EUeENYGD48?si=YqL3_CjAfkoZ0ee9; Count Basie, “Boogie Woogie”: https://youtu.be/piMmhr8eGJw?si=_AFhSOHoGdrczKJx

W May 1 Jazz: Bebop: Charlie Parker, “Ko-Ko”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okrNwE6GI70; Billie Holiday, “Strange Fruit”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Web007rzSOI; Charlie Parker, “Ornithology”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsAMAIaas94; Dizzy Gillespie, “Night in Tunisia”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfLVVHxk4IM
Bonus: Charlie Christian, “Flying Home”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tnI2u8ML4Y

F May 3 Cool Jazz: Miles Davis: “Boplicity”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLzqjmoZZAc; “’Round Midnight”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys9wiGNDCvA; “So What”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylXk1LBvIqU; “Yesterdays”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpzwuXn9bog; John Coltrane, “Chasin’ the Trane”: https://youtu.be/bwc_PnPRNGg?si=eN_wcBLjG24iMHmm; “ My Favorite Things”: https://youtu.be/qWG2dsXV5HI?si=9cNOp0ZaBLcY51bZ

Week 6

M May 6 Gospel: Mahalia Jackson, “Precious Lord, Take My Hand”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=as1rsZenwNc; Lucy Campbell, “Just to Behold His Face”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55x8MX6Ug3s; Clara Ward and the Wardsingers, “Down By the Riverside”: https://youtu.be/9dPUFTc35bA; James Cleveland, “Something’s Got a Hold of Me”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hm4M6CEhzsI; Aretha Franklin, “Never Grow Old”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6hTDHgm7Oc

W May 8 Midterm Exam

F May 10 Soul: Ray Charles, “This Little Girl of Mine”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfPL7Lb0LLM; “What’d I Say”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPLZL4s_jtI; James Brown, “Please, Please, Please”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4w454Lape8; Sam Cooke, “A Change Is Gonna Come”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPr3yvkHYsE; Curtis Mayfield, “Keep on Pushing”: https://youtu.be/HU-mEsCk3D8

Week 7

M May 13 Soul: James Brown, “Try Me”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2XY6oRD2xc; “Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QE5D2hJhacU; “I Got You (I Feel Good)”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1wOK9yGUYM;  “Say It Loud—I’m Black and I’m Proud”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bJA6W9CqvE; Marvin Gaye, “What’s Going On”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-kA3UtBj4M

W May 15 R&B: Louis Jordan, “Caledonia”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBl7iP55Jsw; Ink Spots, “If I Didn’t Care”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC_VzbtRGr0; The Spaniels, “Baby, It’s You”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIs9qsO_st8; The Clovers, “Don’t You Know I Love You”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bum-aMRFGSw;  Fats Domino, “Ain’t That a Shame”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6JZW7zMDfY; The Platters, “The Great Pretender”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwfmbXJEBtY

F May 17 Early Rock’n’Roll: Fats Domino, “Blueberry Hill”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQQCPrwKzdo; Arthur Crudup, “That’s Alright”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxHQUvCkV20;  and Elvis Presley, “That’s Alright, Mama”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmopYuF4BzY; Big Mama Thornton, “Hound Dog”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoHDrzw-RPg; Little Richard, “Tutti Frutti”: https://youtu.be/Cj059o9OwqY; Chuck Berry, “Maybellene”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75RiHJGfyUE; “Johnny Be Goode”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uf4rxCB4lysv

Week 8

M May 20 Motown: Smoky Robinson and the Miracles, “Shop Around”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQGXa3FiXKM;  “Tracks of My Tears”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNS6D4hSQdA; Mary Wells, “My Guy”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WT7nBGX5eU; Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, “Heatwave”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k0GDQrK2jo; Marvin Gaye, “I Heard It Through the Grapevine”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hajBdDM2qdg; Gladys Knight and the Pips, “I Heard It through the Grapevine”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQRcUxNJEbs; Jackson 5, “I Want You Back”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFw5xkD3bjE; Four Tops, “Reach Out, I’ll Be There”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v4twH9KbnU

W May 22 Motown: Supremes and Girl Groups: Diana Ross and the Supremes: “Stop, in the Name of Love”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGJQPkfwlAc; “Where Did Our Love Go?”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTBmgAOO0Nw; “I Hear a Symphony”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHUvpa5EMmo; “You Keep My Hanging On”: https://youtu.be/A9MwPMHEjNM?si=SjK4otfVnKnsBXPo; The Ronettes, “Be My Baby”:  https://youtu.be/jSPpbOGnFgk?si=yGz8ARM0FFX8fEhB;  Marvin Gaye, “What’s Going On”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-kA3UtBj4M  

F May 24 Funk and Dance Music: Sly and the Family Stone, “Everyday People” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUUhDoCx8zc; “Dance to the Music”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn2PNlhvy8E; “Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elk Agin)”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5BP2KlPD4U; Kool and the Gang, “Jungle Boogie”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cEkamU9xow; Parliament, “Chocolate City”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZaVA3NS7zE; “Give Up the Funk”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBWH3OWfT2Y; Earth, Wind & Fire, “Shining Star”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu9a29UR2dU; Ohio Players, “Fire”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xqMY8UAGgg

Week 9

M Memorial Day

W May 29 Dance/Pop: Michael Jackson, “Who’s Loving You”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKlTR6Wlu0o; “Billie Jean”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi_XLOBDo_Y; “Beat It”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRdxUFDoQe0; “In the Closet”: https://youtu.be/4qLY0vbrT8Q;  “Workin’ Day and Night”: youtu.be/MWnyCxva6bA; Prince, “Purple Rain”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6Y1gohk5-A; “When Doves Cry”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UG3VcCAlUgE; “If I Was Your Girlfriend”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naLTT7aMOPY; “Strange Relationship”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5D5k7Ba7U1o

F May 31 Rock: Jimi Hendrix, “The Star-Spangled Banner” (Woodstock): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjzZh6-h9fM; “Purple Haze”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGoDaYjdfSg; “Foxy Lady”: https://youtu.be/BMQHD2CS3IQ; “Hey Joe”: https://youtu.be/rXwMrBb2x1Q; “Red House”: https://youtu.be/_whI9m0SFys

Week 10

M Jun 3 Rap: Sugarhill Gang, “Rapper’s Delight”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjE4Vxe5-Ak; Chic, “Good Times”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51r5f5OdIY0;  “Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, “The Message”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYMkEMCHtJ4; L. L. Cool J, “I’m Bad”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVDfyc2lh4Q; Eric B and Rakim, “Paid in Full”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6aAFkP0BGU; Kool Moe Dee, “How You Like Me Now”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9_nAZ3VEA0;

W Jun 5 Rap: Dr. Dre featuring Snoop Dogg, “Deep Cover”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Op9Ml7pS6uA;  50 Cent, “Blood Hound”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=467eniyf5NY;  Tupac Shakur, “Violent”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l02jXa5PME; Jay-Z, “Trouble”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tFMsNTdIMI; Nas, “Gangsta Tears”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkLlAEAQHnc