As someone who took a history of rock and roll class, learning about the music in a formal setting is not the way we should learn about it (excluding music theory and such). So much of music is about your perception to what you hear. Having a teacher tell you what's good and what's not (which is what that class unfortunately boiled down to) is totally the wrong way to go about music listening. Pedestrian is right, music is about discovery and listening to new things on your own accord.
I will say if the class was taught more as a history class rather than a humanities type class (i.e. I will grade your knowledge of Elvis' significance to spreading rock and roll to white audiences vs I will grade your interpretation on this Elvis song) then I think you have something.
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