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How is plastic made, how does it affect our marine environments, and how can plastic waste be eliminated?
What is Joropo, and how is it inspired by nature?
How can the music of ChocQuibTown, from the Pacific Coast of Colombia, help students express and celebrate their cultural identity through Rap?
What is Ciranda, and how can group singing and dancing help us feel like a part of a community?
What is Quitiplás, how does it incorporate the natural world, and how is it an example of polyrhythm?
What factors led to the rise of the electric guitar as the dominant symbol of Rock and Roll?
What is plastic, how is it harmful for the environment, and how can it be used more responsibly?
What does a music producer do and in what ways does one hear the sound of a producer’s work in recordings?
What is Cumbia, and how do you play its traditional rhythms?
What is the science behind color theory, and how is it used in fashion and album cover design?
How did multitrack recording technologies enable musicians to create a form of music that could only be realized in the studio?
How did the Great Migration spread Southern culture, helping to give the Blues a central place in American popular music?
How can the guitar help us understand the scientific principle of transduction?
How is the re-use and re-purposing of existing music at the heart of the Hip Hop recording experience?
How did popular music reflect the values of the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s and help the movement convey its message?
How can Gospel music help students identify the musical concepts of beat, meter, backbeat, subdivision, and syncopation?
How did The Beatles' rigorous work schedule during the years 1960-63 build their strengths as performers, as musicians, and as a band?
What was South African apartheid, and how did musicians unite to challenge it?
Who is Dolores Huerta, what role did she play in the United Farm Workers movement, and how is she recognized today?
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 Flint water crisis, and why did it occur?
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 did The Beatles’ use of cutting edge recording technology and studio techniques both reflect and shape the counterculture of the 1960s?
What were the different reactions to songs and comments by Country musicians about the September 11th terrorist attacks versus the Iraq War?
How did the electrification, amplification and design of the guitar facilitate its emergence as a dominant instrument of popular music?
How did Dr. King’s Birthday become a national holiday?
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 does Langston Hughes’ Blues-inspired poetry exemplify the ideals of the Harlem Renaissance?
What is the Flint water crisis, and why did it occur?
What is Folk music? To what extent did Folk Rock sustain the spirit of Folk 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?
What is the American Dream and how did Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash personify its ideals?
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 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 did Gospel influence American 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 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 popular music amplify the voices and experiences of Americans serving in the United States Armed Forces during the Vietnam War?
How did Bob Dylan’s early experiences with Folk and Rock and Roll music influence his songwriting?
How was Punk Rock a reaction both to the commercialization of Rock and Roll and to the social climate in late 1970s Britain?
How did changes in the technology of record manufacturing effect popular music, radio, and the people who consumed both?
How were musicians and artists affected by McCarthyism in 1950s America?
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 did the Acadians, or Cajuns, use music and dance to maintain their communal bonds after being displaced during the French and Indian War?
How did Country Music influence Rock and Roll and the musicians who made it?
How did The Beatles establish a new paradigm for the image of "the star," and how did that image support their global success?
How can teachers help students analyze and understand Rock and Roll?
How did Aretha Franklin represent a new female voice in 1960s popular music?
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 are the arguments for and against Bob Dylan receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature?
How did synthesizers allow musicians to create new sounds and how did those sounds reflect American culture throughout the 20th century?
Could a musical group “go viral” before the internet?
What is a PA system, how does it work, and how were the Grateful Dead pioneers in live sound technology?
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?
Who are the Deadheads and how did their lifestyle contrast with the conservative values promoted by President Ronald Reagan in the 1980s?
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 did the early Rolling Stones help popularize the Blues?
How does a bill become a law in the United States of America?
How can math be used to better understand the Grateful Dead’s success?
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?
How did Doo Wop develop as a musical genre?
How did Disco relate to the sentiments and social movements of the 1970s?
What was the Red Power movement, and what role did Folk and Country music play within it?
How do successful music producers practice positive leadership skills?
How did the development of microphones in the 20th century change the way people make and listen to music?
How did antiwar protest music provide a voice for those opposed to the Vietnam War?
How can the Beatles’ growth in popularity be demonstrated with math?
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 Grateful Dead’s business practices create a dedicated fan culture and ensure the financial success of the group?
How were American’s divisive opinions over the Vietnam War articulated by musicians in the 1960s and early 1970s?
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 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?
What is cultural appropriation, how does it affect Native American communities, and should it be regulated by law?
What was South African apartheid, and how did musicians unite to challenge it?
How have musicians helped spread climate activist Greta Thunberg’s message?
How did radio influence American life in the years before the birth of Rock and Roll?
Does Lana Del Rey’s “Young and Beautiful” help humanize Daisy Buchanan of The Great Gatsby?
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 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?
What was the Berlin Wall and how did music respond to what it symbolized?
How did the Beatles take a stand against segregation while touring America? And what did it mean for popular music culture?
What was Hurricane Katrina, and how did Black Americans articulate the frustrations they felt in its aftermath?
How have Native American musicians, poets, and visual artists negotiated their identity, and what role does physical space play in these negotiations?
Who is Dolores Huerta, what role did she play in the United Farm Workers movement, and how is she recognized today?
How do Kendrick Lamar’s album DAMN. and the work of photojournalist Gordon Parks tell stories that bring attention to social issues?
How can shapes be used to design an electric guitar?
What are the musical and cultural roots of Heavy Metal?
How did the cassette tape change the audience’s experience by allowing the listener to record, compile and disseminate music?
How might visual artists use music as a tool for inspiration, and how might sound be reflected through art?
How can you help someone struggling with addiction?
What makes a work of art “original,” and how does the use of “sampling” technology in Hip Hop challenge perceptions of “originality”?
How did the electric guitar transform Blues music from the 1940s forward?
How did Progressive Rock’s incorporation of classical traditions and countercultural values help to forge a unique Rock genre in the late 1960s?
How can society lower the amount of greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere?
What did R&B bring to early Rock and Roll, and how was early Rock and Roll different?
What Latin American genres inspired Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee’s hit song “Despacito”?
How did 1970s Funk respond to African-American life in the decade following the Civil Rights movement?
In what ways did American Blues affect English musicians in the early 1960s?
How has the image and history of the American cowboy been reclaimed in the 21st Century?
How did Bob Dylan merge poetry with popular music?
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 teen dance shows and the Twist influence American culture?
How can music help tell the story of your hometown?
How did changes in the Soul music of the early 1970s reflect broader shifts in American society during that time?
What is distortion, and how did it become a desired guitar effect in Rock and Roll?
What did the success of the female Singer-Songwriters of the early 1970s reveal about the changing roles of women in the United States?
Were the Girl Groups of the early 1960s voices of female empowerment or reflections of traditional female roles?
How did the LGTBQ+ community creatively respond to the AIDS crisis in the 1980s and 1990s, and protest government inaction in addressing the epidemic?
Why might people dance, and how have dance trends changed in America since the 1920s?
How have musicians responded to the Black Lives Matter movement?
What different types of communities exist, and how do the people in our communities impact us?
How did same-sex marriage become legal in the United States?
How did car culture intersect with and inspire Rock and Roll?
How was Heavy Metal involved in the 1980s controversy surrounding the creation of parental advisories for “offensive” music?
What different types of communities exist, and how do the people in our communities impact us?
How did Ritchie Valens meld traditional Mexican music and Rock and Roll?
What is a logo, what are the elements of effective logo design, and how have musicians and bands used logos to brand themselves?
What was NASA’s Apollo program and why was it controversial?
How did the Beatles’ image as a “rock band” affect young people in America?
How did Ritchie Valens meld traditional Mexican music and Rock and Roll?
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 did Rock and Roll serve as an expressive tool for the working-class youth of Detroit?
Why is Chuck Berry often considered the most important of the early Rock and Rollers?
What were the Stonewall Riots, and what role did they play in ongoing struggles for LGBTQ+ equality in the United States?
How does the “Surf Sound” in Rock and Roll reflect early surf culture, and what are the roots of this genre of music?
How did the Who represent “My Generation” in mid-1960s England?
What is Afrofuturism and what are some of the cultural traditions and historical events that inspired and reinforced it?
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?
How is Rock and Roll's power, at least in part, a result of its being born on the margins of society?
How did Country musicians’ responses to the September 11th terrorist attacks speak to the feelings of some Americans after the tragedy?
How does music help us remember people we are close to, or those we have lost?
How did the singer-songwriters of the 1960s and 70s address the concerns of the environmental movement?
How do the Country Blues reflect the challenges of sharecropping, racial injustice, and rural poverty in early 20th-century African-American life?
How did Motown Records in Detroit operate during the 1960s?
How was Glam Rock part of a new teenage culture in the 1970s?
How did movies help to introduce Rock and Roll culture to mainstream audiences in the 1950s?
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 factors that contributed to the rise of Beatlemania?
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?
In what ways does Alessia Cara’s “Here” defy popular music conventions, and what does the song say about peer pressure in youth culture?
How does the Union occupation of Port Royal highlight the complex issues behind the Civil War?
Who are the Wharf Rats, and how do they exemplify the practices of sobriety, peer support, and community building within a musical fan culture?
How did Westward Expansion and the idea of Manifest Destiny inform the image of the cowboy in American culture?
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?
How did black artists and white songwriters and musicians interact in the Soul era, and what contributed to that interaction?
What role did the so-called "teen idols" of the late 1950s play in bringing Rock and Roll into mainstream American culture?
How did Gangsta Rap and Conscious Hip Hop respond to the social and political conditions of the 1990s?
How did Social Soul reflect a new vision of African-American identity in the late 1960s and early 1970s?
How did Sixties Soul help give voice to the Civil Rights movement?
How did New York bands interact with the city's art scene to create something new?
How was Glam Rock a reaction to the "seriousness" of popular music at the time?