Genre: Punk

Student Edition:
Chicana Punk and the Chicano Movement

Grades: High
Subjects: Ethnic Studies, General Music, Social Studies/History

lesson:
Chicana Punk and the Chicano Movement

Grades: High
Subjects: Ethnic Studies, General Music, Social Studies/History

What is Chicana Punk, how does it relate to the Chicano Movement, and how did it transform the Punk music scene?

lesson:
Intersectionality and Punk Music in the 2020s

Grades: High, Middle
Subjects: General Music, Social Emotional Learning

What is intersectionality, and how do musicians in the Punk music scene navigate life at different intersections?

Trace It Back:
Death

Trace It Back:
X-Ray Spex

lesson:
The Black Origins of Punk

Grades: High, Middle
Subjects: ELA, General Music

How did the bands X-Ray Spex, Bad Brains, and Death define Punk on their own terms?

Trace It Back:
Bad Brains

Trace It Back:
Steve Aoki

lesson:
Dolores Huerta and The United Farm Workers Movement

Grades: Elementary 4-6, Middle
Subjects: Art/Design, Civics, ELA, Social Studies/History

Who is Dolores Huerta, what role did she play in the United Farm Workers movement, and how is she recognized today?

Trace It Back:
Alice Bag

Grades: AP/Honors/101, High, Middle

lesson:
The United Farm Workers Movement through Music and Poetry

Grades: High, Middle
Subjects: Civics, ELA, Ethnic Studies, Social Studies/History

Who is Dolores Huerta, what role did she play in the United Farm Workers movement, and how is she recognized today?

Student Edition:
Music and the Berlin Wall during the Cold War

Grades: High, Middle
Subjects: ELA, Social Studies/History

Student Edition:
Music as a Window to the Past

Grades: All Ages
Subjects: ELA, General Music, Social Studies/History

Trace It Back:
Thundercat

Grades: AP/Honors/101, High, Middle

Trace It Back:
Dua Lipa

Grades: AP/Honors/101, High, Middle

lesson:
Third Wave: Women’s Rights and Music in the 1990s

Grades: AP/Honors/101, High
Subjects: Civics, General Music, Social Studies/History

What was Third Wave Feminism, why did it occur, and how did musicians address some of the movement’s demands?

lesson:
Music and the Berlin Wall during the Cold War

Grades: High, Middle
Subjects: ELA, Social Studies/History

What was the Berlin Wall and how did music respond to what it symbolized?

lesson:
The Indigenous Roots of Rock and Roll

Grades: AP/Honors/101, High
Subjects: ELA, Social Studies/History

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?

lesson:
Introducing New Wave

Grades: High, Middle
Subjects: General 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?

lesson:
The Sound of Blue Collar Detroit

Grades: High
Subjects: Social Studies/History

How did Rock and Roll serve as an expressive tool for the working-class youth of Detroit?

lesson:
Punk as Reaction

Grades: High, Middle
Subjects: Art/Design, Social Studies/History

How was Punk Rock a reaction both to the commercialization of Rock and Roll and to the social climate in late 1970s Britain?