Genre: Soul
Student Edition:
Black Radio and the Civil Rights Movement
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Black Radio and the Civil Rights Movement
How did Black radio empower Black Americans, aid the Civil Rights Movement, and influence U.S. society?
Student Edition:
Music of the Civil Rights Movement
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Music of the Civil Rights Movement
How did music advance the goals and inform the tactics of the Civil Rights Movement?
Trace It Back:
Gil Scott-Heron
Trace It Back:
Aretha Franklin
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Identifying and Resisting Jim Crow with Words and Songs
How have works of literature and music by Black Americans shared an empowering theme of identifying and resisting Jim Crow?
Trace It Back:
Whitney Houston
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A Veteran’s Soundtrack to the Vietnam War
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A Veteran’s Soundtrack to the Vietnam War
How did popular music amplify the voices and experiences of Americans serving in the United States Armed Forces during the Vietnam War?
Student Edition:
“Lean on Me”: Expressing Gratitude and Care with Music
How does Bill Withers’ “Lean on Me” express gratitude and the importance of mutual care?
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Singer-Songwriters and the Environmental Movement (Elementary Version)
How did the singer-songwriters of the 1960s and 70s address the concerns of the environmental movement?
Trace It Back:
Mavis Staples
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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?
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The Civil Rights Movement: A Document-Based Question
In what ways did the Civil Rights Movement mark a turning point in United States history?
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Producing the Sounds of a Changing South
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?
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Assembling Hits at Motown
How did Motown Records in Detroit operate during the 1960s?
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Singer-Songwriters and the Environmental Movement
How did the singer-songwriters of the 1960s and 70s address the concerns of the environmental movement?
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Dan Penn
How did black artists and white songwriters and musicians interact in the Soul era, and what contributed to that interaction?
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Gospel Music and the Birth of Soul
How did Gospel influence American popular music?
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Music and Political Movements
How did Sixties Soul help give voice to the Civil Rights movement?
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The Memphis Sound and Racial Integration
How has Memphis music culture provided one example of art’s capacity to challenge the racial boundaries that have so often structured American life?
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Soul Music and the New Femininity
How did Aretha Franklin represent a new female voice in 1960s popular music?
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The Rise of Black Pride
How did Social Soul reflect a new vision of African-American identity in the late 1960s and early 1970s?
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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?