American Musicians Making History

(Paperback)

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This collection of lessons emphasizes using primary sources, such as digitized sheet music and sound recordings, contemporary accounts, and photographs, to illustrate how American music reflects and influences the social and political history of a time period. Topics include: Minstrels Songs of Abolition Spirituals Blues Ragtime Musical Theatre Jazz Country Music Folk Music Classical Music

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Starred Review [A] book that will guide history teachers and music teachers in showing high school students how music fits into the history of America....Topics covered by the book include folk music, lullabies, the blues, spirituals, cowboy songs, jazz, and rock. Our history and music teachers will be fascinated ang excited by the book. Highly Recommended.-Library Media Connection
"Starred Review A book that will guide history teachers and music teachers in showing high school students how music fits into the history of America....Topics covered by the book include folk music, lullabies, the blues, spirituals, cowboy songs, jazz, and rock. Our history and music teachers will be fascinated ang excited by the book. Highly Recommended."-Library Media Connection
"Starred Review [A] book that will guide history teachers and music teachers in showing high school students how music fits into the history of America....Topics covered by the book include folk music, lullabies, the blues, spirituals, cowboy songs, jazz, and rock. Our history and music teachers will be fascinated ang excited by the book. Highly Recommended."-Library Media Connection

Author Bio

DONNA B. LEVENE has been an elementary and high school library media specialist in the Cherry Creek School District of Colorado for thirteen years, currently at Overland High School in Aurora, Colorado. She also performs as a soloist and an accompanist as a member of a local music organization.