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Black Radio and the Civil Rights Movement
How did Black radio empower Black Americans, aid the Civil Rights Movement, and influence U.S. society?
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How did Black radio empower Black Americans, aid the Civil Rights Movement, and influence U.S. society?
How are contemporary Latin artists pursuing activism and promoting positive change in their communities?
How did activism by Black students challenge Jim Crow segregation during the Civil Rights Movement, and what unique role did music play as an organizing tool?
How did music advance the goals and inform the tactics of the Civil Rights Movement?
How have works of literature and music by Black Americans shared an empowering theme of identifying and resisting Jim Crow?
How can graphing be used to analyze music industry data?
What does the founding and early history of Asbury Park reveal about practices of segregation in the Northern United States?
How have visual artists worked with musicians without compromising their style?
How does the “Surf Sound” in Rock and Roll reflect early surf culture, and what are the roots of this genre of music?
How did Dr. King’s Birthday become a national holiday?
How does a bill become a law in the United States of America?
How did the singer-songwriters of the 1960s and 70s address the concerns of the environmental movement?
What was NASA’s Apollo program and why was it controversial?
What is distortion, and how did it become a desired guitar effect in Rock and Roll?
How have Black artists throughout the 20th century used music to speak about racial injustice in America?
How can Gospel music help students identify the musical concepts of beat, meter, backbeat, subdivision, and syncopation?
How did Muddy Waters’ music change after he moved to Chicago, and what does that say about the relationship between place and self-expression?
In what ways did the Civil Rights Movement mark a turning point in United States history?
How might Beyoncé's song “I Was Here” inspire people to serve their community and make a positive impact on the world?
How did the electrification, amplification and design of the guitar facilitate its emergence as a dominant instrument of popular music?
How does “the beat” of popular music reflect the histories of multiethnic populations and places?
How did the recordings Sam Phillips produced at Sun Records, including Elvis Presley’s early work, reflect trends of urbanization and integration in the 1950s American South?
How has “the beat” been an object of both celebration and concern in the history of popular music?
Essential Question: How did Aretha Franklin’s foundation in Gospel music influence her recording of “Chain of Fools,” helping to establish a Soul sound and bringing black culture into mainstream America?
How does the story of “Hound Dog” demonstrate music culture’s racial mixing as it differed from mainstream American life in the 1950s?
What did R&B bring to early Rock and Roll, and how was early Rock and Roll different?
How did black artists and white songwriters and musicians interact in the Soul era, and what contributed to that interaction?
How did the singer-songwriters of the 1960s and 70s address the concerns of the environmental movement?
How did Motown Records in Detroit operate during the 1960s?
What factors led to the rise of the electric guitar as the dominant symbol of Rock and Roll?
How did Dewey Phillips and Hunter Hancock help bring Rhythm and Blues music to mixed race audiences?
How did Rock and Roll serve as an expressive tool for the working-class youth of Detroit?
How did the electric guitar transform Blues music from the 1940s forward?
How did Sixties Soul help give voice to the Civil Rights movement?
How has Memphis music culture provided one example of art’s capacity to challenge the racial boundaries that have so often structured American life?
How did Aretha Franklin represent a new female voice in 1960s popular music?
How did antiwar protest music provide a voice for those opposed to the Vietnam War?
What role did the so-called "teen idols" of the late 1950s play in bringing Rock and Roll into mainstream American culture?
How did teen dance shows and the Twist influence American culture?
Were the Girl Groups of the early 1960s voices of female empowerment or reflections of traditional female roles?