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Funk Asserts Itself
How did 1970s Funk respond to African-American life in the decade following the Civil Rights movement?
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How did 1970s Funk respond to African-American life in the decade following the Civil Rights movement?
How does “the beat” of popular music reflect the histories of multiethnic populations and places?
How were musicians and artists affected by McCarthyism in 1950s America?
How did Sixties Soul help give voice to the Civil Rights movement?
How did Gangsta Rap and Conscious Hip Hop respond to the social and political conditions of the 1990s?
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 was Punk Rock a reaction both to the commercialization of Rock and Roll and to the social climate in late 1970s Britain?
How can teachers help students analyze and understand Rock and Roll?
How did the Great Migration spread Southern culture, helping to give the Blues a central place in American popular music?
How do the Country Blues reflect the challenges of sharecropping, racial injustice, and rural poverty in early 20th-century African-American life?
How did black artists and white songwriters and musicians interact in the Soul era, and what contributed to that interaction?
How did multitrack recording technologies enable musicians to create a form of music that could only be realized in the studio?
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 is the re-use and re-purposing of existing music at the heart of the Hip Hop recording experience?
Did President Ronald Reagan’s Cold War policies serve to heighten or to reduce tensions with the Soviet Union?
How can Gospel music help students identify the musical concepts of beat, meter, backbeat, subdivision, and syncopation?
Why might people dance, and how have dance trends changed in America since the 1920s?
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?
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 different types of communities exist, and how do the people in our communities impact us?
What different types of communities exist, and how do the people in our communities impact us?
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 the Beatles take a stand against segregation while touring America? And what did it mean for popular music culture?
How did wartime restrictions and other factors cause popular music ensembles to shrink in size during the 1940s, helping to set the stage for the small “combos” of Rock and Roll?
How was Glam Rock part of a new teenage culture in the 1970s?
What factors led to the rise of the electric guitar as the dominant symbol of Rock and Roll?
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?
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 did the development of microphones in the 20th century change the way people make and listen to music?
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 did synthesizers allow musicians to create new sounds and how did those sounds reflect American culture throughout the 20th century?
What are the arguments for and against Bob Dylan receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature?
How did the Acadians, or Cajuns, use music and dance to maintain their communal bonds after being displaced during the French and Indian War?
What is cultural appropriation, how does it affect Native American communities, and should it be regulated by law?
What is the relationship between the banjo and slavery, and how did music making by slaves influence the abolition debate during the 18th and early 19th century?
What was the Second Great Awakening, how did it change American society, and how does Sacred Harp singing exemplify its ideals?
What is the science behind color theory, and how is it used in fashion and album cover design?
How did Muddy Waters’ music change after he moved to Chicago, and what does that say about the relationship between place and self-expression?
What was South African apartheid, and how did musicians unite to challenge it?
How did MTV help create a visual space in which artists could, inadvertently or not, challenge established ideas about gender?
How did the cassette tape change the audience’s experience by allowing the listener to record, compile and disseminate music?
How have singers responded as advances in studio recording techniques have enabled increased technological “perfection”?
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?
What makes a work of art “original,” and how does the use of “sampling” technology in Hip Hop challenge perceptions of “originality”?
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 establish a new paradigm for the image of "the star," and how did that image support their global success?
How do successful music producers practice positive leadership skills?
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?
How did the Beatles’ image as a “rock band” affect young people in America?
How did The Beatles' rigorous work schedule during the years 1960-63 build their strengths as performers, as musicians, and as a band?
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 did the singer-songwriters of the 1960s and 70s address the concerns of the environmental movement?
How did radio influence American life in the years before the birth of Rock and Roll?
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 popular music reflect the values of the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s and help the movement convey its message?
How did teenagers become a distinct demographic group in the 1950s?
How did growing up in post-WWII Liverpool influence the Beatles?
How is Rock and Roll's power, at least in part, a result of its being born on the margins of society?
How did movies help to introduce Rock and Roll culture to mainstream audiences in the 1950s?
What role did the so-called "teen idols" of the late 1950s play in bringing Rock and Roll into mainstream American culture?
What is the American Dream and how did Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash personify its ideals?
How did Bob Dylan’s early experiences with Folk and Rock and Roll music influence his songwriting?
How did Elvis Presley’s early career reflect race relations and racial tensions in mid-1950s America?
How did the early Rolling Stones help popularize the Blues?
How was Heavy Metal involved in the 1980s controversy surrounding the creation of parental advisories for “offensive” music?
Why did nearly 100,000 young people descend upon San Francisco in 1967 for a “Summer of Love"?
Were the Girl Groups of the early 1960s voices of female empowerment or reflections of traditional female roles?
How did teen dance shows and the Twist influence American culture?
What did the success of the female Singer-Songwriters of the early 1970s reveal about the changing roles of women in the United States?
How did antiwar protest music provide a voice for those opposed to the Vietnam War?
How did Social Soul reflect a new vision of African-American identity in the late 1960s and early 1970s?
How did Progressive Rock’s incorporation of classical traditions and countercultural values help to forge a unique Rock genre in the late 1960s?
In what ways did American Blues affect English musicians in the early 1960s?
What is Folk music? To what extent did Folk Rock sustain the spirit of Folk music?
What did Punk Rock provide that opened the door for New Wave acts? And what are some among the defining attributes of New Wave?
How was Glam Rock a reaction to the "seriousness" of popular music at the time?
What did R&B bring to early Rock and Roll, and how was early Rock and Roll different?
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 New York bands interact with the city's art scene to create something new?
How did changes in the Soul music of the early 1970s reflect broader shifts in American society during that time?
How did Country Music influence Rock and Roll and the musicians who made it?
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?
In what ways and to what extent did the Vietnam War change American culture, society, and values?
Why is Chuck Berry often considered the most important of the early Rock and Rollers?
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 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 car culture intersect with and inspire Rock and Roll?
How did Aretha Franklin represent a new female voice in 1960s popular music?
In what ways might Kesha’s legal battle and her song “Praying” reflect larger issues present in the #MeToo 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 did the music of the Beach Boys reflect the suburbanization of postwar America?
What Latin American genres inspired Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee’s hit song “Despacito”?
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 was the Red Power movement, and what role did Folk and Country music play within it?
How have Native American musicians and visual artists negotiated their identity, and what role does physical space play in these negotiations?
In what ways did the music of Native Americans mark them as outsiders from the developing narratives of “American-ness” in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and how did the federal government attempt to use music as a tool to force assimilation?
Who are the gods and superheroes referenced in “Something Just Like This,” and what are the connections between them?
What was South African apartheid, and how did musicians unite to challenge it?
How can society lower the amount of greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere?
How does understanding the structure and context of the song "Hound Dog" inform its performance?
In what ways does Alessia Cara’s “Here” defy popular music conventions, and what does the song say about peer pressure in youth culture?
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?
How does the song “Blowin’ in the Wind” use poetic devices to communicate an open-ended yet powerful message about the human condition, without ever losing its historical specificity?
How does understanding the structure and context of the song "Blowin' in the Wind" inform its performance?
How does understanding the structure and context of the song "Chain of Fools" inform its performance?
How does understanding the structure and context of the song "Twist and Shout" inform its performance?
How might Beyoncé's song “I Was Here” inspire people to serve their community and make a positive impact on the world?
How does music help us remember people we are close to, or those we have lost?
What is a logo, what are the elements of effective logo design, and how have musicians and bands used logos to brand themselves?
How might Tori Kelly’s song “Funny” speak to the potential pitfalls of “superstardom,” and how does it relate to past songs written about the subject?
How did Ritchie Valens meld traditional Mexican music and Rock and Roll?
What were the Stonewall Riots, and what role did they play in ongoing struggles for LGBTQ+ equality in the United States?
How did the LGTBQ+ community creatively respond to the AIDS crisis in the 1980s and 1990s, and protest government inaction in addressing the epidemic?
How did same-sex marriage become legal in the United States?
What is the Flint water crisis, and why did it occur?
What is the Flint water crisis, and why did it occur?
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 did the counterculture movement of the late 1960s challenge traditional American behaviors and values, and how did the Grateful Dead reflect these changing views of life and society?
How did the singer-songwriters of the 1960s and 70s address the concerns of the environmental movement?
How did beat writers like Jack Kerouac influence the Grateful Dead’s music?
How does Langston Hughes’ Blues-inspired poetry exemplify the ideals of the Harlem Renaissance?
Who are the Deadheads and how did their lifestyle contrast with the conservative values promoted by President Ronald Reagan in the 1980s?
How did the Grateful Dead make their concerts more accessible to the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) community?
What is a PA system, how does it work, and how were the Grateful Dead pioneers in live sound technology?
What was Third Wave Feminism, why did it occur, and how did musicians address some of the movement’s demands?
How can you help someone struggling with addiction?
What was NASA’s Apollo program and why was it controversial?
How can the guitar help us understand the scientific principle of transduction?
How have musicians responded to the Black Lives Matter movement?
How might visual artists use music as a tool for inspiration, and how might sound be reflected through art?
Does Lana Del Rey’s “Young and Beautiful” help humanize Daisy Buchanan of The Great Gatsby?
How does John Legend and Common’s “Glory” signal Civil Rights movements of the past and the present?
How is plastic made, how does it affect our marine environments, and how can plastic waste be eliminated?
What is plastic, how is it harmful for the environment, and how can it be used more responsibly?
In what ways did the Civil Rights Movement mark a turning point in United States history?
How can shapes be used to design an electric guitar?
How have black artists throughout the 20th century used music to speak about racial injustice in America?
What was Hurricane Katrina, and how did black Americans articulate the frustrations they felt in its aftermath?
How did country musicians’ responses to the September 11th terrorist attacks speak to the feelings of the American people after the tragedy?
How did music help people resist what the Berlin Wall symbolized?
How were American’s divisive opinions over the Vietnam War articulated by musicians in the 1960s and early 1970s?
What shapes did Pablo Picasso use to create his piece Guitar, Sheet Music, and Glass and how can similar shapes be used to create other instruments?
What is distortion, and how did it become a desired guitar effect in Rock and Roll?