American Music History - Full Semester Course Curriculum - Bundle

American Music History - Semester Course Curriculum

Semester Course Curriculum

AMERICAN MUSIC and CULTURAL HISTORY

This is the full 18-week semester course curriculum - American Music History.

Enrich your classroom with an innovative curriculum exploring the history of America's diverse cultures and musical art forms in the context of major historical events as students build a timeline of American music. 

Our American Music History curriculum for classrooms is an 18-lesson series detailing the history of American roots music in conjunction with American history. Our lessons integrate reading, video content, music, storytelling, geography, and history. Students will learn to recognize different genres of American music and understand important cultural contributions to American culture from diverse music pioneers throughout history. Each lesson inspires critical thinking, cultural understanding, and music appreciation. 

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Beautifully designed, our program is complete with teacher guides, specific learning objectives, project-based learning activities, and higher-order thinking questions for discussion. Our content-rich curriculum is in line with California State Standards for social studies and visual and performing arts - providing historical and cultural context - and the ethnic studies model curriculum. 

Through engaging, and content-rich lessons that trace the history of blues, jazz, country, rock and roll, soul, rap, punk, and more in the timeline of American history, students gain an appreciation for American music and an understanding of our diverse cultural history.

Students learn to understand the context and connections between historical events and larger social, economic, and political developments as they explore the relationship between music and history. The lessons promote self and collective empowerment and showcase how young people created societal change via artistic expression in each generation throughout American history.

Each lesson contains a music playlist, artwork, historical photography, activities, video content, reading excerpts, and discussion in this award-winning, innovative, and fun course!

Included:

Course Outline

Learning Objectives: The Roots

Learning Objectives: The Branches

Instructional Strategies

Course Plan + Materials

Education Standards Alignment

PART ONE: THE ROOTS

Lesson 1 - Early Blues

Lesson 2 - Early Jazz

Lesson 3 - Jazz Age

Lesson 4 - Country & Folk

Lesson 5 - Electric Blues

Lesson 6 - Bebop Jazz

Lesson 7 - Rock and Roll

Lesson 8 - British Invasion

Bonus Lesson - Surf Music

PART TWO: THE BRANCHES

Lesson 9 - Motown

Lesson 10 - Soul Music

Lesson 11 - Psychedelic Rock

Lesson 12 - California Country

Lesson 13 - Southern Rock

Lesson 14 - Rap Music

Lesson 15 - Punk & Ska

Lesson 16 - Grunge

Bonus Lesson - Disco

Essay Prompts

Final Exams

Final Project + Game

Certificate of Completion

Class Poster

American Music History is a cultural studies course rooted in music appreciation and American history where students think critically about issues of race and class while interacting with history in new and exciting ways through music. The content-rich lessons engage students as they develop an understanding of American music and cultural history. I have taught this course in person in a middle school setting and the online version of this course has been utilized by teachers and high school students in several public charter schools in California and homeschoolers. Students love this course!

American Music History can be taught as a semester or year-long course and is built around the Music History Hall playlists - one hour of music per lesson - which is the cornerstone of the course. {www.musichistoryhall.org/playlists}

If you would like to teach this course and the Full Course Bundle pricing is not in your budget, you could download the FREE resources and purchase the Course Plan + Materials, and Lesson 1 -- and purchase the additional lessons as you go!

This course text and compilation have been officially registered with the United States Copyright Office. All rights reserved. This product is licensed to the buyer for one license only - not to be shared or reproduced without permission.

If you have any questions about the curriculum, please reach out to me via TPT or at patti@musichistoryhall.org.

There is also an online version of this course - designed in Canvas with recorded lectures - available for licensing to your school - perfect for distance learning or homeschool options. Please email patti@musichistoryhall.org if you would like to review the online course.

I hope you enjoy engaging with your students through this important and enriching course - American Music History!

Cheers!