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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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Music and Political Movements
How did Sixties Soul help give voice to the Civil Rights movement?
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Rhythm as a Representation of People and Place
How does “the beat” of popular music reflect the histories of multiethnic populations and places?
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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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How to Study Rock and Roll
How can teachers help students analyze and understand Rock and Roll?
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The Blues and the Great Migration
How did the Great Migration spread Southern culture, helping to give the Blues a central place in American popular music?
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The Blues: The Sound of Rural Poverty
How do the Country Blues reflect the challenges of sharecropping, racial injustice, and rural poverty in early 20th-century African-American life?
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Artists Protest McCarthyism
How were musicians and artists affected by McCarthyism in 1950s America?
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Divergent Paths in the 1990s: Gangsta Rap and Conscious Hip Hop
How did Gangsta Rap and Conscious Hip Hop respond to the social and political conditions of the 1990s?
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Latin Music in Postwar New York City
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?
