Popular Music: Let's Begin

Grace Slick with Jefferson Airplane, "White Rabbit-Live at Woodstock, August 17, 1969" YouTube video, 2:41, accessed September 22, 2015, https://youtu.be/R_raXzIRgsA .

Grace Slick composed White Rabbit, one of the top songs in rock music history.

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• Modes of Performance (club, festival, acoustic, electronic, stage, studio, TV, video, film, commercial CD, e.g.): what can we learn

Thanks to David Gilbert (UCLA Music Library) and Emily Ferrigno (Yale Music Library) for borrowing of some of their libguides content.