6 Week Online Course with Mark Montgomery French
Join us for The Completely Abridged History of Bay Area Music, a humorous, immersive, and historically accurate course that distills six decades of mind-altering, revolutionary-starting, beat-making, and life-affirming music that originated from these nine counties.
Featuring: The Grateful Dead, Sly and The Family Stone, Janis Joplin, The Pointer Sisters, Tower of Power, The Avengers, Chris Isaak, Faith No More, Too $hort, 2Pac, Green Day, Primus, Oh Sees, Ledisi, Mac Dre, Tune-Yards, Toro y Moi, Fantastic Negrito, and more!
From the Wine Country to Silicon Valley, the Bay Area has historically been a haven for invention and an incubator for creativity. My course will reveal The Bay’s inventive influence on folk, rock, R&B, gospel, punk, Latin music, hip-hop, classical, jazz, and experimental music. Plus, there will be jokes. And maps.
Week One—The 1960s: The Grateful Dead, Sly and The Family Stone, Janis Joplin, and more!
Week Two—The 1970s: The Pointer Sisters, Tower of Power, The Avengers, and more!
Week Three—The 1980s: Chris Isaak, Faith No More, Too $hort, and more!
Week Four—The 1990s: 2Pac, Green Day, Primus, and more!
Week Five—The 2000s: Oh Sees, Ledisi, Mac Dre, and more!
Week Six—The 2010s: Tune-Yards, Toro y Moi, Fantastic Negrito, and more!
Teacher/Artist Bio
San Francisco-native Mark Montgomery French is an award-winning film composer with the group Spiky Blimp, Creative Director of Glide Church’s Sunday Online Celebration, staff writer at PopMatters, manager of critically acclaimed queer country act Secret Emchy Society, and a music culture writer noted for Uppity Music—Your Guide to Unsung Black Departure Albums, the series 28 Days, 28 Black Music Documentaries. and the podcast All Your Favorite Music is (Probably)…