(SET) England, the 1960s, and the Triumph of the Beatles & America’s Musical Heritage
How can music shape the culture of entire nations? Find out in this eye- and ear-opening two-course set that blends music and history. First, join best-selling biographer Michael Shelden for 12 vibrant lectures on how the 1960s shaped the Beatles—and how the band, in turn, defined the revolutionary spirit of the age— with England, the 1960s, and the Triumph of the Beatles. Then, in America’s Musical Heritage, cross the pond and explore more than 200 years of music from trailblazers like Scott Joplin, the Memphis Jug Band, Woody Guthrie, and many others.