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These country sounds are the building blocks of America's popular music. The weekly Honky Tonks segments explored the roots music with historic performances, rare archive tape, and interviews with artists including country legend Merle Haggard, bluesmen Honeyboy Edwards and Taj Mahal, and fiddle greats Alison Krauss and Mark O'Connor.
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- Arts
- Grade Level:
- Post-secondary
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National Public Radio
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Blues and folk singer Elizabeth Cotten talks to Topper Carew about her early childhood. The inspiration for her famous song 'Freight Train' is based on her experiences living next to railroad tracks.
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- Arts, Social Sciences
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WGBH Open Vault
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An introduction to diverse musical traditions of the world. Music from a wide range of geographical areas are studied in terms of structure, performance practice, social use, aesthetics, and cross-cultural contact. Includes hands-on music making, live demonstrations by guest artists, and ethnographic research projects. This course explores the ways that music is both shaped by and gives shape to the cultural settings in which it is performed, through studying selected musical traditions from around the world. Specific case studies will be examined closely through listening, analysis, and hands-on instruction. The syllabus centers around weekly listening assignments and readings from a textbook with CDs, supplemented by hands-on workshops, lecture/demonstrations and concerts by master musicians from around the world.
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- Arts, Social Sciences
- Grade Level:
- Post-secondary
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MIT OpenCourseWare
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Excerpt from a film by Topper Carew on Mississippi Fred MacDowell about the blues musician acclaimed by his contemporaries, but commercially ignored. Includes performance footage of Mississippi Fred MacDowell.
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- Arts
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WGBH Open Vault
Evaluated
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In this video segment from Jazz at Lincoln Center, Wynton Marsalis and his band play “St. Louis Blues.”
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- Arts, Humanities
- Grade Level:
- Primary, Secondary
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Teachers' Domain
No Strings Attached
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There are many musical scales that cannot be classified as major or minor, including chromatic, whole-tone, pentatonic, blues, and various scales common to Non-Western music.
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- Arts
- Grade Level:
- Primary, Secondary, Post-secondary
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Connexions
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This is a field collection of 700 sound recordings, field notes, dust jackets, and other manuscripts documenting a three-month, 6,502-mile trip through the southern U.S. The recordings include ballads, blues, children's songs, cowboy songs, fiddle tunes, field hollers, lullabies, play-party songs, religious dramas, spirituals, and work songs.
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- Arts
- Grade Level:
- Primary, Secondary, Post-secondary
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Library of Congress
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Excerpt from the studio performance of Something About the Blues, a play by Fred Johnson, in which the actors choose to revise the play's subject matter, using 'real life' situations to illustrate the 'singing of the blues.'. Clifton Powell performs a vignette about the struggle to find employment.
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- Arts, Humanities
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WGBH Open Vault
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Often sung in the daily lives of early African-American slaves as a calling language, the blues often narrated the emotions and feelings of the singer. Students will develop an awareness of music, poetry writing, and media literacy.
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- Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences
- Grade Level:
- Primary
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KQED Education Network
