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Loudspeakers, PA Systems, and the “Wall of Sound”
What is a PA system, how does it work, and how were the Grateful Dead pioneers in live sound technology?
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What is a PA system, how does it work, and how were the Grateful Dead pioneers in live sound technology?
How did New York bands interact with the city's art scene to create something new?
How did changes in the technology of record manufacturing effect popular music, radio, and the people who consumed both?
How did the electrification, amplification and design of the guitar facilitate its emergence as a dominant instrument of popular music?
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?
How do Langston Hughes, Gladys Bentley, and Louis Armstrong effectively write personal narratives about living during the Harlem Renaissance?
How did Social Soul reflect a new vision of African-American identity in the late 1960s and early 1970s?
How does the Union occupation of Port Royal highlight the complex issues behind the Civil War?
What does a music producer do and in what ways does one hear the sound of a producer’s work in recordings?
How did The Beatles' rigorous work schedule during the years 1960-63 build their strengths as performers, as musicians, and as a band?
How did the development of microphones in the 20th century change the way people make and listen to music?
What role did the so-called "teen idols" of the late 1950s play in bringing Rock and Roll into mainstream American culture?
How did the input of manager Brian Epstein and record producer George Martin help The Beatles develop and refine skills that aided the band in presenting their music and personalities to a mass audience?
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 did the Great Migration spread Southern culture, helping to give the Blues a central place in American popular 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 multitrack recording technologies enable musicians to create a form of music that could only be realized in the studio?
What are the mathematical variables that give a sound its particular quality, and how can these variables be measured, visualized, and calculated?
How have Black artists throughout the 20th century used music to speak about racial injustice in America?
What did R&B bring to early Rock and Roll, and how was early Rock and Roll different?
How is plastic made, how does it affect our marine environments, and how can plastic waste be eliminated?
How were American’s divisive opinions over the Vietnam War articulated by musicians in the 1960s and early 1970s?
What was South African apartheid, and how did musicians unite to challenge it?
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 beat” of popular music reflect the histories of multiethnic populations and places?
How did The Beatles’ use of cutting edge recording technology and studio techniques both reflect and shape the counterculture of the 1960s?
How has “the beat” been an object of both celebration and concern in the history of popular music?
How have singers responded as advances in studio recording techniques have enabled increased technological “perfection”?
How did Black and Latinx people in the LGBTQ+ community take initiative in the Stonewall Inn rebellions, Gay Liberation Movement, and in the preservation of LGBTQ+ history?
How do successful music producers practice positive leadership skills?
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 Muddy Waters’ music change after he moved to Chicago, and what does that say about the relationship between place and self-expression?
How can society lower the amount of greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere?
How does the “Surf Sound” in Rock and Roll reflect early surf culture, and what are the roots of this genre of music?
How might visual artists use music as a tool for inspiration, and how might sound be reflected through art?
What is the Surf sound and where did it come from?
How did the bands X-Ray Spex, Bad Brains, and Death define Punk on their own terms?
How did the singer-songwriters of the 1960s and 70s address the concerns of the environmental movement?
How did the early Rolling Stones help popularize the Blues?
How is Rock and Roll's power, at least in part, a result of its being born on the margins of society?
How did the singer-songwriters of the 1960s and 70s address the concerns of the environmental movement?
How do Nimrod Workman’s songs and stories about his life as a coal miner illustrate the struggles of working class people during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era?
How does Common and John Legend's “Glory” signal Civil Rights movements of the past and the present?
How can one reproduce the effects seen in the music video for Zedd, Maren Morris, and Grey’s song “The Middle” using a homemade projector?
What were the Stonewall Riots, and what role did they play in ongoing struggles for LGBTQ+ equality in the United States?
How did Westward Expansion and the idea of Manifest Destiny inform the image of the cowboy in American culture?
How was Heavy Metal involved in the 1980s controversy surrounding the creation of parental advisories for “offensive” music?
What did the success of the female Singer-Songwriters of the early 1970s reveal about the changing roles of women in the United States?
What was Hurricane Katrina, and how did Black Americans articulate the frustrations they felt in its aftermath?
How do Kendrick Lamar’s album DAMN. and the work of photojournalist Gordon Parks tell stories that bring attention to social issues?
What is mountaintop removal, how does it affect the environment and people’s health?
What was Third Wave Feminism, why did it occur, and how did musicians address some of the movement’s demands?
What is the Flint water crisis, and why did it occur?
What is plastic, how is it harmful for the environment, and how can it be used more responsibly?
How have works of literature and music by Black Americans shared an empowering theme of identifying and resisting Jim Crow?
How did popular music amplify the voices and experiences of Americans serving in the United States Armed Forces during the Vietnam War?
What factors led to the rise of the electric guitar as the dominant symbol of Rock and Roll?
In what ways did the Civil Rights Movement mark a turning point in United States history?
How did Dewey Phillips and Hunter Hancock help bring Rhythm and Blues music to mixed race audiences?
How did Disco relate to the sentiments and social movements of the 1970s?
What are the musical and cultural roots of Heavy Metal?
What was Grunge and where did it come from?
How can teachers help students analyze and understand Rock and Roll?
How did teenagers become a distinct demographic group in the 1950s?
How did Aretha Franklin represent a new female voice in 1960s popular music?
How has Memphis music culture provided one example of art’s capacity to challenge the racial boundaries that have so often structured American life?
Why is Chuck Berry often considered the most important of the early Rock and Rollers?
What are the arguments for and against Bob Dylan receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature?
How did the careers of Italian American vocalists in the first half of the 20th century reflect the experiences of Italian American immigrants and attitudes toward them in the wider American culture?
What is Folk music? To what extent did Folk Rock sustain the spirit of Folk music?
How did 1970s Funk respond to African-American life in the decade following the Civil Rights movement?
How is the re-use and re-purposing of existing music at the heart of the Hip Hop recording experience?
How did the Beatles take a stand against segregation while touring America? And what did it mean for popular music culture?
How did the Beatles’ image as a “rock band” affect young people in America?
What caused The Beatles to cease touring in 1966 and how did the innovative music they then created during their subsequent immersion in the recording studio both reflect and influence the world at that time?
How might Beyoncé's song “I Was Here” inspire people to serve their community and make a positive impact on the world?
What is intersectionality, and how do musicians in the Punk music scene navigate life at different intersections?