Music as a Way Out


Dion DiMucci - Music as a Way Out

Related Lessons

lesson:
Considering the Future of Rock and Roll

Grades: High
Subjects: ELA, Social Studies/History

How is Rock and Roll's power, at least in part, a result of its being born on the margins of society?

lesson:
Thematic Lesson: Love Songs

Grades: All Ages, AP/Honors/101, Elementary, High, Middle
Subjects: ELA, General Music, Social Studies/History

Why is the Pop song such a common medium for expressing feelings about love, and how do individual songs relate to their historical moments?

Related People

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Dion

(b. 1939) Although he originally emerged as a swaggering, Doo Wop-singing teen idol in the late 1950s, streetwise New Yorker Dion DiMucci (better known simply as Dion) quickly showed himself to be a sublimely soulful vocalist as well as an artist of depth and versatility. In the half-century since his original run of hits ended, he's continued to make personally charged, if not always commercially successful, music in a variety of styles. Dion's musical sensibility was shaped by the Blues, R&B and Country records he heard while growing up in the Bronx in the pre-Rock and Roll 50s. After an unsuccessful...