Popular Music Topics
Select a topic for your written assignment from the following:

• Louis Armstrong
• John Coltrane
• Miles Davis
• Bob Dylan
• Joan Baez
• Woody Guthrie
• Leadbelly
• John and Allen Lomax
• Duke Ellington
• Ella Fitzgerald
• Dizzy Gillespie
• Billie Holliday
• B.B. King
• Joni Mitchell
• Charlie Parker
• Pete Seeger
• Sonny Terry
• Stevie Ray Vaughn
• Muddy Waters
• George Gershwin
• Scott Joplin
• Count Basie
• Charles Mingus
• Thelonious Monk
• Lightnin' Hopkins
• Robert Johnson
• Ornette Coleman
• Gil Evans
• Sydney Bechet
• Josephine Baker