Section Info: MUSIC-139-01

Course Title: Music of the 1970s

Start Date: 01/27/2026 End Date: 05/12/2026

Term: Spring Semester 2026

Description: Remembered primarily for being the decade when popular music demanded a reality check, the 1970s will be the framework for a critical and analytical survey of some of the more fertile developments and influential ideas that originated, flourished, and/or declined in that era. Topics will include minimalism, jazz-rock fusion, reggae, disco, punk, and the accompanying multiculturalism that informed social/political/economic conditions that bred these styles.

Distribution(s): I - Humanities

Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate

Credits:4.00

Faculty	Phone	Email address
David Sanford	413-538-2356	dsanford@mtholyoke.edu

Meeting Dates	Method	Meeting days	Meeting times	Building name	Room	Frequency
01/27/2026 - 05/12/2026	Lecture	Tuesday and Thursday	01:45PM - 03:00PM	PRAT - Pratt Memorial Music Bldg	109	Weekly

REGISTRATION DETAILS

Requisite Courses
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Course Availability
Section status: Waitlisted	Capacity: 20	Enrollment: 20	Available: 0	Waitlist: 12

Please note: The "Available" count will equal 0 in a Waitlisted course where spaces in the course have recently opened and students have not yet been moved into them from the waitlist.

BOOK INFORMATION

Book List	Required	Publisher Full Price
To be determined.

Additional Book Comments

This is NOT the complete book list for this class.