"Six Musical Masterworks That Changed America"

"Six Musical Masterworks That Changed America": Learn About History-Making Music

Spend two hours reinvigorating your love and appreciation for music with this permeating lecture from Georgetown University music professor and award-winning music historian Anna Celenza. With a goal of removing music from the background of our lives, Celenza will demonstrate not just how music reflects culture, but how it also has the power to change it. In "Six Musical Masterworks That Changed America", she will riff on some of the most important--though not necessarily well-known--pieces that have shaped our country's history, including an 18th-century drinking tune that defined American patriotism, an orchestral suite and ballad from the 1930s that fueled the need for nature conservation and the Civil Rights movement, a musical from the late 1950s that inadvertently strengthened negative Hispanic stereotypes and a 1980s pop album that changed our foreign policy.