Reflecting on Prof. Roy's Lecture

Hi All I want to share with all of u my experience in UCLA training.
Our First Lecture was with Prof. Roy
The title of it was Democracy & social Movement in U.S
First of all i would like to say that Prof Roy is an excellent Prof. Where he makes us get all the information simply. and he wasn't fast so it was very good where we catch all the information easily.
Second, I don't find a relation between Democracy and folk music. All the session was about Folk music and not democracy.
Anyway, it was interesting to know how Folk music start and where….

Things that the first lecture covered are:
• Folk music
• Europe before modern time
• New sense of culture
• Social earning
• Criticism of industrialization
• Cecil Sharp
• Ordinary music
• Second generation of Folklorists
• New generation of collectors
• Old English Song tells a story
• Radical social Movements in 1930's
• People music
• Civil Rights Movement
• Commercial folk Revival
• Folk music themes
• Culture meaning American folk music
• Music is a statement about who we are and how we can fit into society
• Music is a microcosm of society
• Unmistakable democratic thread

Mariam Balhass

SUSI(Study of the US Institute)

@ UCLA