Survey of Popular Music

Seattle Pacific University

David Anderson

Independent Listening Log

During the course of the term, each student is required to listen to a total of 30 hours of music outside of class- and average of 3 hours per week. There are three sections to this assignment, as delineated below.

For each hour of listening, a minimum of one full page of notes is required, please use back of each page for additional notes, if needed. Please use the "Listening Log" (pdf) to document your work- this log will be a part of your final notebook. Document with dates, what you listened to, your thoughts about what you heard, and the amount of time you listened to a particular song, relating to topics covered in class. When listening to an entire CD or album, you must document your listening with at least one page of notes per hour- a line or two for an entire CD is not acceptable. You may supplement the following lists with radio broadcasts, personal recordings, recordings from libraries and friends, television, etc. Use the log form to total your time. You must complete the first page of the log at the end of the term, totaling your time.

Since there is little else in the way of homework, this is extremely important. The Listening Log will be included in your final notebook.

NOTE: Listening is to be just that. You must actively listen when working on this assignment and cannot include times when using music as "background"or doing other activities (this means don't count listening in a car when driving!)

This 30 hour total is a sum of the following assignments, in three sections.

Section 1. CHOICE – 8 hours of popular music of your choice.

Your particular taste in music is acceptable in this section, but not all. You must demonstrate a variety of styles heard.

Section 2. RADIO – 4 hours of music from the following radio broadcasts. Minimum of two different stations in the 4 hour total. You may use total time of listening to a radio station, including advertisements (but not news, etc.), but remember to supply the total time listened in your log. Since it is often difficult to obtain all the pertinent information from a radio broadcast, some leeway is allowed in details. Do the best you can in acquiring information (for example, some songs may not be announced, but be sure to remember that some stations back-announce, i.e., info is given after the song and not before).

a) KIXI 880 AM – Easy Listening (Tin Pan Alley, some Jazz)

http://www.kixi.com/ for on-line listening

b) KWJZ 98.9 FM – Easy Jazz

http://www.kwjz.com/ for on-line listening

c) KMPS 94.1 FM – Country

http://www.kmps.com/ for on-line listening

Section 3. STYLE GROUPS –18 hours total of music. Select minimum of 3 hours each from the following four groups, but totaling 18 hours (you will listen to more than three hours in some groups to make 18):

Group A – 19th Century and Tin Pan Alley

Group B – Jazz, R&B, and Rock

Group C – Folk (all sub-styles)

Group D – Country & Novelty

Recordings available for these style groups are noted below.

SPU Library Holdings

Following is a list of CDs in the SPU Library applicable to listening assignments. The list includes those CDs that are part of the general holdings (noted with SPU catalogue number) and CDs that are on reserve that are a part of the instructor's personal collection made available for your listening. You may supplement these recordings with those from other sources (holdings in other libraries, personal recordings, radio, etc.) and SPU Library holdings in vinyl LPs, which are not listed. You may research those holdings as you wish.

Group	Style	TITLE	Location
A	19th Century	Songs of the Civil War (non-historical performances)	RCD 0393
A	19th Century	Angel's Visits and other vocal gems of Victorian America	Personal Reserve
A	19th Century	Stephen Foster: Civil War Songs	Personal Reserve
A	Tin Pan Alley	Bing: His Legendary Years, 1931-1957	M1639.18.C69 B5 1993
A	Tin Pan Alley	Blue Velvet: 25 Magic Memories	Personal Reserve
A	Tin Pan Alley	Gershwin	RCD 0162
A	Tin Pan Alley	Nobody Does It Better: 25 Magic Memories	Personal Reserve
A	Tin Pan Alley	Perfectly Frank: Live Broadcast Performance / Frank Sinatra	RCD 0336
A	Tin Pan Alley	That's Amore	Personal Reserve
A	Tin Pan Alley	The House I Live In: Early Encores, 1943-1946 / Frank Sinatra	RCD 0334
A	Tin Pan Alley	Frank Sinatra: American Songbook	Personal Reserve
A	Tin Pan Alley	The Rat Pack	Personal Reserve
A	Tin Pan Alley	The Very Best of Al Jolson	Personal Reserve
A	Tin Pan Alley	With A Song In My Heart: 25 Magic Memories	Personal Reserve
B	Jazz	Introducing Verve Jazz Masters	RCD 0453
B	Jazz	Ken Burns' Jazz: The Story of America's Music	RCD 0661
B	Jazz	Louis Armstrong: The Great Satchmo	Personal Reserve
B	Jazz	Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz v. 1	RCD 0684
B	Jazz	Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz v. 2	RCD 0685
B	Jazz	Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz v. 3	RCD 0686
B	Jazz	Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz v. 4	RCD 0687
B	Jazz	Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz v. 5	RCD 0688
B	Jazz	The History of Jazz: The Be-Bop Revolution	Personal Reserve
B	Jazz	The History of Jazz: The Big Band Years	Personal Reserve
B	Jazz	The History of Jazz: The Early Days	Personal Reserve
B	Jazz	The History of Jazz: The Swing Era	Personal Reserve
B	Jazz	The Instrumental History of Jazz	RCD 0387
B	Jazz	What to Listen for in Jazz	RCD 0533
B	R&B	The Best of Jump and Jive	Personal Reserve
B	Rock	Happy Together, Sixties Rock	RCD 0372
B	Rock	Rock Around the Clock	Personal Reserve
C	Folk	Folk song America 1: a 20th century revival	RCD 0384 v.1
C	Folk	Folk song America 2: a 20th century revival	RCD 0384 v.2
C	Folk	Folk song America 3: a 20th century revival	RCD 0384 v.3
C	Folk	Folk song America 4: a 20th century revival	RCD 0384 v.4
C	Folk – African/American - Sacred	African-American Gospel: The Pioneering Composers	RCD 0580
C	Folk – African/American - Sacred	Gospels, Spiritual & Hymns / Mahalia Jackson	RCD 0471
C	Folk - Modern	The Weavers	Personal Reserve
C	Folk - Modern	Woody Guthrie: The Asch Recordings	RCD 0640 v. 1,2,3,4
C	Folk – Modern	Pete Seeger: We Shall Not be Moved	Personal Reserve
C	Folk – Modern	The Almanac Singers: Songs of Protest	Personal Reserve
C	Folk – Modern	Woody Guthrie: Pastures of Plenty	Personal Reserve
C	Folk - Rural	Anthology of American Folk Music	RCD 0597 v. 1, 2, 3
C	Folk - Rural	Southern Journey 1: Voices From the American South	RCD 0614
C	Folk - Rural	Southern Journey 2: Ballads and Breakdowns	RCD 0617
C	Folk - Rural	Southern Journey 3: 61 Highway Mississippi	RCD 0615
C	Folk - Rural	Southern Journey 4: Brethren, We Meet Again	RCD 0616
C	Folk – Rural	The Kentucky Minstrels	Personal Reserve
C	Folk - Sacred	Goodbye, Babylon	RCD 0695
C	Folk - Sacred	Sacred Harp Singing	RCD 0583
D	Country	Classic Country Music I	RCD 0363 v. 1
D	Country	Classic Country Music II	RCD 0363 v. 2
D	Country	Classic Country Music III	RCD 0363 v. 3
D	Country	Classic Country Music IV	RCD 0363 v. 4
D	Novelty	Ha! Ha!: 24 Great Comedy Songs	Personal Reserve
D	Novelty	Mairzy Doats: 24 Great Comic Songs of the '40s	Personal Reserve
D	Novelty	Spike Jones: Musical Mayhem	Personal Reserve