Welcome!
This is the blog for History and Sociology of Rock & Roll at Atherton High School. The course will use the blog as the main connection between myself and the students enrolled in the class. I hope that this course will be as inspirational to you as it was to me while creating it and now teaching it. I will be updating the blog everyday during the duration of the class. The course will be run like a college seminar that will ask a lot of you as a student. I am certain that it will be one of the most demanding but rewarding courses you have ever taken, and that you will begin to see what will be expected of you during college. To the right you will find a link to the AGENDA and TEXTBOOK. From day one you will be expected to check this blog daily and get assignments from it. Some will need to be printed some will need to be emailed while others may simply be links to videos to watch and review for class discussions. It is my hope that this collaboration will become a way for you to interact with me in a new way that will be engaging and productive to all. I am looking forward to meeting and working with you this year, so thanks for your attention and let's make it a great year.
Price's Contact info:
larry.price@jefferson.kyschools.us
The first book selected is "The Devil's Music: A History of the Blues" by Giles Oakley. The book is a intriguing look at the beginnings of the blues that pulls no punches when dealing with the raw racism that shadowed the development of the art form and it's first mockery by whites, slow acceptance, out right copying and final exploitation of African Americans and their homegrown music.
