rock music across borders

I just wanted to share with all you music lovers that next term (college) I will be taking a course with that title, "Rock music across borders" and I am so excited as I have always listened to some of it -- SA, Spain, France, Polish and of course Eng/GB. No such thing existed when I was getting degreed.

There is also a course on Music for protest that I am waiting for in future terms.

After 6 courses in Fr. I am quite good at the reading and writing but speaking and especially listening is harder-- no one around with whom to practice.

That sounds like a course I would have loved to take, almost jealous. School was never that cool when I went either.

What percentage of the Music for protest curriculum is just Pete Seeger and his disciples?

Sadly, the course turned out to be The History of Rock as was the title of our text. In a 10 week course by week 5 NADA re "across borders" except mexico and it was NOT rock. A very young (in her 30s) and insecure (I'm guessing) got very angry when she had her music fact wrong, not to mention the BOOK!! I lived that history. Without getting into detail, I dropped the course disappointed it was not :rock music across borders"

I do need to mention what I learned re academics "analyzing" rock and roll and rock music. There is one camp who says the Beatles and the Rolling Stones destroyed or killed rock and roll. On the other side, there are those who say rock and roll died in 1959, that between 1960 and 1964 rock and roll was crap (my word interpreting their writing) and that the Beatles SAVED rock!!! I read lots more work of academics and all I can say is they should keep out of what they do not know, do not understand, do not like and need no academic analysis.