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Gospel Music and the Birth of Soul
How did Gospel influence American popular music?
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How did Gospel influence American 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 can Gospel music help students identify the musical concepts of beat, meter, backbeat, subdivision, and syncopation?
How did Aretha Franklin represent a new female voice in 1960s popular music?
How did Doo Wop develop as a musical genre?
How did music advance the goals and inform the tactics of the Civil Rights Movement?
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 does the story of “Hound Dog” demonstrate music culture’s racial mixing as it differed from mainstream American life in the 1950s?
How does “the beat” of popular music reflect the histories of multiethnic populations and places?
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 have Black artists throughout the 20th century used music to speak about racial injustice in America?
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