UC Riverside Department of Music presents:

Dr. Roberta Freund Schwartz: "1928 -- The Big Bang of Black Popular Music: A Story in Three Acts"

In 1928, three influential blues recordings - "How Long, How Long Blues," "It's Tight Like That," and "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie" - traversed racial and genre boundaries in the recording industry.  Their influence continued to reverberate during the following decades, and ultimately were fundamental in shaping black popular music's dominant styles: boogie woogie, rhythm and blues, jump blues, pop crooners, and rock 'n' roll.

Part of the 2024-2025 Florence Bayz Music Series

The Florence Bayz Music Series offers online concerts, lectures, and presentations of academic research by Department of Music faculty, postdoctoral researchers, students, and international guest artists and scholars.

Dr. Amy Skjerseth (she/her), Assistant Professor of Popular Music, Coordinator

Events are free and open to the public.

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