This course presents a survey of American Jazz and Popular Music from the beginning to the late 20th Century.  Styles include music from Tin Pan Alley, Ragtime, Blues, New Orleans Jazz, Swing Era Big Band music and pop singers, Bebop, Hard Bop, Cool Jazz, Free Jazz, Modal Jazz, Rock and Roll, Rhythm and Blues, Rock, Soul, Funk, Fusion, etc. The course is non-technical and is geared to non-musicians.  Music terminology and concepts will be introduced as the course progresses.  The emphasis is on listening and all tests and assignments will include critical listening, aural discrimination and identification of various works and styles.  The goal of the course is to enable the student to gain proficiency in attentive and critical listening to various styles of Pop and Jazz music, to gain an understanding of the music through such listening, and to be able to understand and trace the historical development and evolution of the music.