Distance Learning:
“Lean on Me”: Expressing Gratitude and Care with Music
Grades:
All Ages
Subjects:
ELA, General Music, Social Emotional Learning
Activities:
Creative Writing, Performance
lesson:
Funk Asserts Itself
Grades:
High
Subjects:
Social Studies/History
Activities:
Charts and Graphs, Textual Analysis, Visual Analysis
How did 1970s Funk respond to African-American life in the decade following the Civil Rights movement?
lesson:
The Blues and the Great Migration
Grades:
High
Subjects:
Social Studies/History, STEAM
Activities:
Charts and Graphs, Document-Based Questions, Maps, Textual Analysis, Visual Analysis
How did the Great Migration spread Southern culture, helping to give the Blues a central place in American popular music?
lesson:
Latin Music in Postwar New York City
Grades:
High
Subjects:
Social Studies/History
Activities:
Charts and Graphs, Maps, Textual Analysis, Visual Analysis
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?
lesson:
Artists Protest McCarthyism
Grades:
High
Subjects:
Social Studies/History
Activities:
Role Playing, Textual Analysis, Visual Analysis
How were musicians and artists affected by McCarthyism in 1950s America?
lesson:
Rhythm as a Representation of People and Place
How does “the beat” of popular music reflect the histories of multiethnic populations and places?
lesson:
Dan Penn
Grades:
High, Middle
Subjects:
General Music
Activities:
Musical Analysis, Textual Analysis
How did black artists and white songwriters and musicians interact in the Soul era, and what contributed to that interaction?
