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The Juke Joint: Where Oral Literature Comes Alive
What role do Blues lyrics and juke joints play in Black American literature and life?
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What role do Blues lyrics and juke joints play in Black American literature and life?
How did the Great Migration spread Southern culture, helping to give the Blues a central place in American popular music?
How does Langston Hughes’ Blues-inspired poetry exemplify the ideals of the Harlem Renaissance?
In what ways did American Blues affect English musicians in the early 1960s?
How did the early Rolling Stones help popularize the Blues?
How do the Country Blues reflect the challenges of sharecropping, racial injustice, and rural poverty in early 20th-century African-American life?
How did the electric guitar transform Blues music from the 1940s forward?
What did R&B bring to early Rock and Roll, and how was early Rock and Roll different?
How did Dewey Phillips and Hunter Hancock help bring Rhythm and Blues music to mixed race audiences?
How did Muddy Waters’ music change after he moved to Chicago, and what does that say about the relationship between place and self-expression?
How did Bob Dylan merge poetry with popular music?
How were Bo Diddley’s recordings an anomaly in relation to 1950s Pop music, and how is his rhythm-driven sound and self-presentation a precursor to Hip Hop style?
How have writers, storytellers, and musicians explored the crossroads as a symbol in their work?
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 does the story of “Hound Dog” demonstrate music culture’s racial mixing as it differed from mainstream American life in the 1950s?
How did Country Music influence Rock and Roll and the musicians who made it?
How has Memphis music culture provided one example of art’s capacity to challenge the racial boundaries that have so often structured American life?
What is the relationship between the banjo and slavery, and how did music making by enslaved people influence the abolition debate during the 18th and early 19th century?
What is the significance of Reconstruction and what does it reveal about the freedom that the post-Civil War constitutional amendments secured for African Americans?
How can teachers help students analyze and understand Rock and Roll?
What are the musical and cultural roots of Heavy Metal?
How has the relation between sound and image shifted through the history of recorded music, and how did the rise of MTV bring that relationship to a culmination of sorts?
In what ways did Jimi Hendrix help create a new "Hard Rock" sound while retaining a connection to the Blues and R&B of his past?
How did the electrification, amplification and design of the guitar facilitate its emergence as a dominant instrument of popular music?
How can Gospel music help students identify the musical concepts of beat, meter, backbeat, subdivision, and syncopation?
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?
What factors led to the rise of the electric guitar as the dominant symbol of Rock and Roll?
What is the American Dream and how did Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash personify its ideals?
How do Langston Hughes, Gladys Bentley, and Louis Armstrong effectively write personal narratives about living during the Harlem Renaissance?
How does the “Surf Sound” in Rock and Roll reflect early surf culture, and what are the roots of this genre of music?
How is the re-use and re-purposing of existing music at the heart of the Hip Hop recording experience?
What role did cover songs like “Twist and Shout” play early in the Beatles's career, and how did their experiences growing up in post-WWII Liverpool and performing in Hamburg nightclubs help them to develop as a professional musical ensemble?
What is the Surf sound and where did it come from?
What are the arguments for and against Bob Dylan receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature?
How did growing up in post-WWII Liverpool influence the Beatles?
What role did the so-called "teen idols" of the late 1950s play in bringing Rock and Roll into mainstream American culture?
How did Gospel influence American popular music?
How did car culture intersect with and inspire Rock and Roll?
How did the Beatles take a stand against segregation while touring America? And what did it mean for popular music culture?
Why is Chuck Berry often considered the most important of the early Rock and Rollers?
What is Folk music? To what extent did Folk Rock sustain the spirit of Folk music?
Why is the Pop song such a common medium for expressing feelings about love, and how do individual songs relate to their historical moments?
How did radio influence American life in the years before the birth of Rock and Roll?
How did the growth of New York City’s Latino population in the 1940s and 50s help to increase the popularity of Latin music and dance in American culture?
How has “the beat” been an object of both celebration and concern in the history of popular music?
How did The Beatles' rigorous work schedule during the years 1960-63 build their strengths as performers, as musicians, and as a band?
What makes a work of art “original,” and how does the use of “sampling” technology in Hip Hop challenge perceptions of “originality”?
What does Link Wray’s biography say about how Native Americans lived in the first half of the 20th century, and what role did Wray’s upbringing have on his music?
What is distortion, and how did it become a desired guitar effect in Rock and Roll?
How can math be used to better understand the Grateful Dead’s success?
How can data be analyzed and interpreted to better understand a band's success?
How have works of literature and music by Black Americans shared an empowering theme of identifying and resisting Jim Crow?