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Unravelling the Legend of Robert Johnson

IN THE short space of seven months in the 1930s, a slender youth from Robinsonville, Mississippi, recorded twenty-nine blues sides in madeshift conditions, and a year later he was dead. But these two sessions, in Dallas and San Antonio, contain the greatest legend the blues has ever known, and precipitated a whole string of tales, theories, fancies and fabrications about the man which present such a incongruous pastiche when woven together that indeed Johnson’s life, his sudden fame and immediate death, is reminiscent of the kind of mysteries usually recounted exclusively in black magic anthologies. But as that great authority...

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Sister Rosetta Tharpe

(1915 – 1973) Both a Gospel superstar and a popular Rhythm and Blues singer, Sister Rosetta Tharpe achieved widespread popularity in the 30s and 40s, with a high-energy performing style that marks her as a pioneering early influence on Rock and Roll. A powerful singer, a distinctive songwriter and an expansive, effervescent personality, Tharpe made exuberant music that drew heavy inspiration from the Blues, often combining spiritual lyrics with raucous, earthy music, while exhibiting a level of showmanship and charisma that was uncommon in the Gospel field at the time. Tharpe was also an influential early exponent of the electric...

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Celebrating Community with Art and Poetry (Elementary School Version)

Grades: Elementary 4-6

Subjects: Art/Design, Social Emotional Learning

Activities: Personal Reflection, Visual Art

Topics: Civics and Politics, Contemporary Music, Literature

What different types of communities exist, and how do the people in our communities impact us?

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Metallica

In the '80s and '90s, Metallica almost singlehandedly brought the attitude and sensibility of the Heavy Metal underground into the mainstream, bringing Metal back to its earthy roots at a time when commercial Hard Rock had become dominated by the more commercial sounds of Pop Metal (derided by its detractors as “Hair Metal” for its photogenic, elaborately coiffed bands). Maintaining an unpretentious regular-guy image, Metallica combined the Thrash Metal subgenre's emphasis on speed and volume with intricate songwriting and aggressive yet complex instrumental interplay. Founded in Los Angeles, Calif., by Danish-born drummer Lars Ulrich and fronted by singer/guitarist James Hetfield,...

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Lightnin’ Hopkins

(1912 – 1982) With a career spanning six decades and hundreds of recordings, Lightnin’ Hopkins was among the most prolific and admired Blues players of the 20th century, and one who spanned the rural Country Blues tradition and the electric Blues of the postwar years. He was also an accomplished guitarist whose syncopated, thumping fingerpicking style directly or indirectly influenced many subsequent Blues and Rock players. Sam John Hopkins was born in 1912 in Centerville, Texas, the grandson of slaves and the son of sharecroppers. Immersedi in the Blues from a young age, Hopkins built his first “guitar” from a cigar box...

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Larry Williams

(1935 – 1980) Larry Williams was an R&B singer and an outsized character whose raucous late 50s recordings would become favorites of many of the young rockers of the 1960s British Invasion. Growing up in New Orleans, Williams learned to play piano as a boy. As a teen he joined a local R&B band in Oakland, Calif., when his parents relocated there. In 1954 he returned to New Orleans and began to work as a chauffer/valet for singer Lloyd Price, eventually becoming pianist for Price as well as R&B singers Roy Brown and Percy Mayfield, who were all recording for Specialty...

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Johnny Cash

(1932 – 2003) With his rumbling baritone voice, spare, percussive guitar and imposing, black-clad presence, Johnny Cash was an iconic figure whose influence spans the 50s Rockabilly explosion, multimedia stardom in the 60s and a late-life comeback in the '90s. Cash remained a beloved star in the Country field for decades, despite his refusal to play by the genre's established rules. Meanwhile, the empathy for the underdog and passion for social justice that fueled much of his music aligned him with the Rock counterculture from the '60s onward. The Arkansas-bred Cash first recorded in the 50s for the Sun label, where...

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A Veteran’s Soundtrack to the Vietnam War

Grades: AP/Honors/101, High

Subjects: Social Studies/History

Activities: Textual Analysis, Think-Pair-Share, Visual Analysis

Topics: Civics and Politics, Social-Emotional Learning, War

How did popular music amplify the voices and experiences of Americans serving in the United States Armed Forces during the Vietnam War?

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The United Farm Workers Movement through Music and Poetry

Grades: High, Middle

Subjects: Civics, ELA, Ethnic Studies, Social Studies/History

Activities: Creative Writing, Personal Reflection, Role Playing, Textual Analysis, Visual Analysis, Visual Design

Topics: Civics and Politics, Gender and Sexuality, Labor History, Latin American History, Migration, Social Justice Movements, Women's History

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

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Jimi Hendrix: Rock’s Trailblazing Innovator and Influential Guitarist

Grades: High, Middle

Subjects: General Music, Social Studies/History

Activities: Interactive Tech Tools, Textual Analysis, Visual Analysis

Topics: Black History, Guitar

Who was Jimi Hendrix and how did he create his own innovative style in Rock music through the merger of different musical genres?

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article: Unravelling the Legend of Robert Johnson

people: Sister Rosetta Tharpe

lesson: Celebrating Community with Art and Poetry (Elementary School Version)

people: Metallica

people: Lightnin’ Hopkins

people: Larry Williams

people: Johnny Cash

lesson: A Veteran’s Soundtrack to the Vietnam War

lesson: The United Farm Workers Movement through Music and Poetry

lesson: Jimi Hendrix: Rock’s Trailblazing Innovator and Influential Guitarist