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tricri Advance< offered A new development in an old subject is occuring in the USC Department of Art. For the first time next semester, students will be able to take courses leading to a new degree-a. master's in art history. Art history division chairman Dr. Charles Randall Mack, says studying the development of art throughout the ages is a vital asset, not only to artist and art majors, but to anyone interested in human history. The art history program at USC serves a dual purpose; first it fulfills a regional demand for well-trained art historians for work in colleges, museums and archives and secondly, it provides students with the opportunity to prepare for more advanced degrees. In addition to the beginning of the master's program, sone 50 un dergraduates are majoring in art history and more than 1,000 students will enroll in art history courses this school year alone. The program has three areas of concentration: Renaissance and Baroque art, nineteenth and twentieth century ,art, and American art. In ad dition to thee speciality areas,, curses also are offered in ancient and Renaissance art. nineteenth century art and twentieth century architecture to complete the E f, 0 r The blues: f 'I just play what I feel.' d degree m art program which covers the scope of Western art from prehistoric to contempoorary times. Art historians at USC are active as creative research scholars, in addition to their promary teaching responsibilities. They have presented papers at the annual meetings of the College Art Association, the Southern College Art Conference, the International Congress for the History of Art and many others. Members of the faculty also work with the Columbia Museum of Art. A course in museum training is team-taight by a faculty member and a member of the museum staff. The art history division also offers museology seminars given in collaboration with 'the Columbia Museum Staff. Another valuable resource in the art history area Dr. Mack points out is the Columbia Historical Foundation. Its three well-furnished nineteenth century homes provide a valuable asset for students of American decorative arts and architecture The state archives adjacent to the campus, contain an important collection of regional documents many of which pertain to notable landmarks in the area, and the Huntington Gallery regularly presents faculty shows and traveling exhibitions of contemporary art. BY ED WARE In a room at the Sheraton irownie McGhee was sacked out, set propped up, in a chair. Beads f sweat covered his face-the esult of two superb sets in the ;olden Spur. "Marvelous audience, just antastic," Brownie said in bet een pulls on his pint bottle of )ewars Scotch. Sonny Terry, the other half of hat the New York Times called the greatest living exponents of lack folk blues," had gone to outhern Pines, N.C. to visit riends. Together since 1939 they have eleased more than 70 albums ricluding a. recent one featuring krlo Guthrie, Sugarcane Haris and [ohn Mayall. From the sleaziest New York lives to the heralded Montreaux razz Festival where only the vorld's premier musicians are nvited to perform, Sonny and irownie have played them all. Their influence on rock and blues nusicians is immeasurable. "You know," Brownie said, "we yven done music for Broadway plays and movies." These include inuian's Rainbow. Facing the 'rewd, Buck and the Preacher and taak af Numbers. The Paul. Winter Consort will appear in the Coliseum at 8:30 p.m.. The Consort made up of five musicians, creates a original music using an amalgam of rock and sym phonic instruments. Tickets for the performance are free to USC ID holders, and are available to the general public at $4 each. 'Rock and roi but th4 with white folh Sonny, who is blind, plays the harmonica while Birownie handles the guitar chores. Both are masters of their instruments. "We are not a team, we are in dividuals but we are supporting one another while we play. When I play the guitar I am com plimenting Sonny and when he plays the harmonica he Is com plimenting me. "You want to know sometin, I can't stand to hearSon toft ta harmonica. Iltry not todsstes. The only time I know he is playing that thing is when he overrides m. ain't nothing blues playin' it.' Brownie McGhee "I am an entertainer not a musician. There is a big di- BonePa ueadrw ference. Entertainers must be "o' s ewa h le totally Involved and I have neverIs"Bwnepadd"au dot been to a place where I ain't In- ow I' haIfel volved. A musician Is just some topy cat who gets out there and plays a tebusnwpol eln ret set thing. But Iget out there and~1 get tlt with the audience and 6ekadrlaitnoigbt play wht I think they would lke tothblewihhtefk IynI. hear. Sonny and me never gobya a etnyualtl tr, standard lIst of tunes. Bonesi.~ bushi "Ya know," Brownie said, "after jyceiitrkan a concert I never come off ashamed of what I done because tig tomorrow I know I will do better."inbusaetelrc.Tt'wh Blue Isthemus~' BnnyandIt' a llapu eadr