This course will be a brisk survey of 15 major figures in the history of music in the United States, representing genres of both classical and various types of popular music: William Billings, Stephen Foster, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, John Philip Sousa, Amy Beach, George M. Cohan, Florence Price, Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Aaron Copland, Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker, Leonard Bernstein, Miles Davis, and Elvis Presley.
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Bio: Paul Laird is Professor of Musicology at the University of Kansas, where one of his teaching specialties is music of the United States. He has published widely on such topics as Leonard Bernstein and American musical theater and won the 2021 KU Chancellor's Club Career Teaching Award. Laird has taught many Osher classes since the program's inception at KU.
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