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"In this history class, the final project is a pop song"
First-Year Seminar, Prof. Tom Mullaney
"Mullaney’s musical chops came into play during some of the course’s jam sessions. With him on guitar and piano, students would riff on lyrics they wrote that were inspired by historical material they had discovered in campus archives, including Special Collections, the Archive of Recorded Sound, and the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics." See the article in the Stanford Report where you can watch an affiliated video of a class visit to CCRMA. Read about the First-Year Seminar, History Goes Pop!: Songwriting the Past--new in 2025-26--in the IntroSems catalog.