In MUS 222, students will be introduced to the fundamental elements of rock music, the artists and stylistic periods in rock history, and the cultural, political, social, and technological issues rock music has raised in the United States. The class will promote a better understanding of the way creativity impacts rock lyrics, compositional processes, and will also introduce elements of ethnomusicology to study issues of rock's creative presentation of identity, gender, race, sexuality, class, and ethnicity.