Genre: Funk
Student Edition:
Black Radio and the Civil Rights Movement
lesson:
Black Radio and the Civil Rights Movement
How did Black radio empower Black Americans, aid the Civil Rights Movement, and influence U.S. society?
Trace It Back:
Death
Trace It Back:
Gil Scott-Heron
Student Edition:
Afrofuturism and Flying Africans
Student Edition:
Music as a Window to the Past
lesson:
Swing Down: Afrofuturism & Flight in the Black Imagination
What is Afrofuturism and what are some of the cultural traditions and historical events that inspired and reinforced it?
Trace It Back:
Thundercat
Trace It Back:
Betty Davis
Trace It Back:
Chance the Rapper
Trace It Back:
H.E.R.
Trace It Back:
Gorillaz
lesson:
Musical Reactions to the Vietnam War
How were American’s divisive opinions over the Vietnam War articulated by musicians in the 1960s and early 1970s?
lesson:
“Alright” and the History of Black Protest Songs
How have Black artists throughout the 20th century used music to speak about racial injustice in America?
lesson:
Funk Asserts Itself
How did 1970s Funk respond to African-American life in the decade following the Civil Rights movement?
lesson:
The Rise of Black Pride
How did Social Soul reflect a new vision of African-American identity in the late 1960s and early 1970s?
lesson:
Seventies Soul: The Soundtrack of Turbulent Times
How did changes in the Soul music of the early 1970s reflect broader shifts in American society during that time?