Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing, and Culture through the American Music Industry Suzette Korch

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Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing, and
Culture through the American Music Industry

Suzette Korchmaros
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Ice Breaker

• Partner Interview Questions
• Form two circles with 10 people in the inner
  circle and 10 in the outer circle
• Form an outer circle and another circle inside,
  students in the inner circle move counter
  clockwise and ask the outer circle questions
  assigned, asking a different person the different
  questions. Then after 3 minutes the outer circle
  asks the questions and the circle moves in the
  opposite direction

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Ice Breaker Introductions

• Stand up and introduce the person sitting next to
  you - tell the group their name and one of the
  answers from the circle activity.
• I will breifly introduce myself with a powerpoint
  and touch on
• Classroom rules (forming your own)
• Point system/grading programs
• Notebooks (bellwork, classwork/notes, vocabulary,
  project, and handouts/quizzes) and benefits
• Routines

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Bellwork

• This is used at the beginning of class as a warm
  up exercise or motivating activity to connect to
  prior knowledge. The date and 2-3 questions in
  English and Spanish are written with possible
  answers. Review in English and gives 5 minutes
  to do attendance and tend to other students.
  Students should write these in a certain section
  of their notebook for points.
• Example
• Today is January _______ two thousand six, Monday
• 1. What music genre do you listen to?
• Que tipo de genres de música escuchas?
• I listen to
• 2. Who is your favorite English language music
  group or musician?
• Quien es tu favorito grupo de música o músico
  en el lenguaje ingles?
• My favorite group/musician is.
• Yesterday was January thirteenth. Tomorrow
  is_________ and the day after tomorrow will
  be__________
• 1. What is the name of your favorite song in
  English?
• 2. Who sings the song?
• 3. What genre is it in?

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Music Genres

• KWL chart
• What you know
• What you want to learn
• What you learnt- This part is reviewed after
  lesson

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Music Genres

• A music genre is a category (or genre) of pieces
  of music that share a certain style or "basic
  musical language". Music can also be categorised
  by non-musical criteria such as geographical
  origin. Such categories are not strictly genre
  and a single geographical category will often
  include a number of different genre.

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Overview of main groupings

• Classical music (or art music)
• Gospel
• Jazz
• Latin American
• Blues
• Rhythm and blues
• Rock
• Country music
• Electronic music
• Electronic dance music
• Electronica
• Melodic music
• Reggae, dub, and related forms
• Punk music
• Hip hop / Rap
• Contemporary African music

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Music Vocabulary

• Homework-2x English with mini picture stays in
  notebook (music nouns) Part of notebook
• Lyricas Lyrics Lyrics (picture/symbol)
• Word wall-each students draws a different word
  and writes word in English and Spanish with a
  sentence (music verbs)
• Compose/componer The song writer composed two new
  songs last spring. (picture)
• Pictures-students respond-use the ones they made
  and cover up vocab word
• TPR-Total Physical Response (music instruments)
  actions with words
• Afterwords ask the person sitting behind you or
  in front of you interview questions
• Which instrument do you play? Do you like to
  sing? Name an instrument thats popular in you
  country? Etc.
• or have them put instruments into categories
• Breath bow hands only

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Music Vocabulary-Continued

• Bingo (music types) have students fold a scarp
  piece of paper into four, when they open it up
  their should be 16 squares, have the pick 16
  vocab words and write randomly in the squares.
• Memory 16 squares on overhead pick 8 vocab
  words and cover with post its labeled with
  numbers, make teams and have students call
  numbers and make a pair
• Charades (music instruments) have students act
  out and guess vocab word by raising their hand
• Pick a category and have students throw ball with
  words under that category-example music types,
  instruments, verbs
• Divide class into two groups. Have students ask
  questions to guess word. Is it an instrument,
  does it have strings, is it a verb, etc.
• Discuss idioms and expressions- write sentences
  and discuss example Lee didnt want to tell
  his parents about the car accident, but he had to
  face the music.

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Time-prepostions

• Before-previous to time
• After subsequent to a time
• During for part of a period/same time
• Throughout for entire period of time
• At/around, at/about at am approx. time
• By no later than a time
• Since between a past time and now
• For during a length of time

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Personal Time lines

• Have students develop a person time with 10
  important life events and 10 musical events in
  their life. Include pictures and use the past
  tense (either ed or irregular verbs.)Example
• I was born on November first nineteen seventy
  four.
• I went to my first music concert on October 21st
  nineteen eighty five.
• Students can write a 1 page personal biography
  using the prepositions previously introduced and
  peer editing can be used.

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How to instructions

• A. Give Verbs-come out, eject, go, listen to,
  make, pick, pick up, play, press in, put, repeat,
  skip, stop, take out, use, want
• B. Give nouns-button, case. CD, compact disc,
  disc, music, number, player, remote, track, tray
• C. Others- back, finally, forward, next
• D. Demonstrate a how to in the front of the room
  with students/Playing a CD and have students
  develop a how to that has to do with music step
  by step. Example how to play the guitar

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Popcorn Reading

• Using a sponge ball, students read a paragraph or
  sentence and then throw the ball to the next
  reader. This keeps students on the ball and
  focused on reading since they dont know when it
  will be their turn to read.

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United States Music

• The music of the United States includes a number
  of kinds of distinct folk and popular music,
  including some of the most widely-recognized
  styles in the world. The original inhabitants of
  the United States included hundreds of Native
  American tribes, who played the first music in
  the area. Beginning in the 15th century,
  immigrants from England, Spain and France began
  arriving in large numbers, bringing with them new
  styles and instruments. Africans imported as
  slaves provided the musical underpinnings of much
  of modern American music, including blues, jazz,
  country, rock and roll, hip hop, disco, funk,
  soul music, doo-wop, reggae, ragtime, and certain
  dance/electronic genres such as house music,
  techno, and electro. Other styles of music were
  brought by Hispanics from Mexico, Cuba and Puerto
  Rico, the Cajun descendants of French-Canadians,
  Jews, Eastern Europeans and Irish, Scottish and
  Italian immigrants.

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United States Music

• Since the beginning of the 20th century, popular
  recorded music from the United States has become
  increasingly known across the world, to the point
  where some form of American popular music is
  listened to almost everywhere. Most of this
  popular music ultimately stems from African
  American music, especially the blues and African
  American gospel music. African American folk
  music is a part of the Afro-American tradition,
  which extends across most of the Western
  Hemisphere, where elements of African, European
  and indigenous music mixed in varying amounts to
  form a wide array of diverse styles. Celtic
  music, especially Irish and Scottish, also played
  an integral role in shaping modern American
  music, through massive immigration of Irish and
  Scottish people, bringing with them folk music.
  Long a land of immigrants, the United States has
  also seen documented folk music and recorded
  popular music produced in the ethnic styles of
  Ukrainian, Polish, Mexican, Cuban, Spanish and
  Jewish communities.

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United States Music

• The modern United States is divided into fifty
  states and the inhabited non-state territories of
  Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, American Samoa,
  U.S. Virgin Islands, Northern Mariana Islands and
  Guam. Most cities, and even many smaller towns,
  have local music scenes, ranging from casual
  opportunities for amateur performers at bars and
  other establishments to large-scale orchestras,
  local indie record labels and community
  performing venues, all supporting a number of
  vibrant regional traditions in various styles.
  Though none doubt the importance of a handful of
  major cities, like New York, Nashville and Los
  Angeles, many smaller cities and regions have
  produced memorable and distinctive styles of
  music. The Cajun and Creole traditions in
  Louisianan music and the unique folk and popular
  styles of Hawaiian music are two notable
  exceptions, though other styles of distinct
  regional music range from the colonial First New
  England School to modern scenes like Memphis rap
  and the Omaha sound.

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United States Music

• Genres (Samples) Classical - Folk - Popular Hip
  hop - Pop Rock
• AwardsGrammy Awards, Country Music Awards
• ChartsBillboard Music ChartFestivalsJazz Fest,
  Lollapalooza, Ozzfest, Monterey Jazz Festival
• MediaSpin, Rolling Stone, Vibe, Downbeat, Source,
  MTV, VH1National anthem"The Star-Spangled Banner"
  and forty-nine state

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United States Popular musicMusic

• The United States has produced many of the most
  popular musicians and composers in the modern
  world. Beginning with the birth of recorded
  music, American performers have continued to lead
  the field of popular music, which, out of "all
  the contributions made by Americans to world
  culture... has been taken to heart by the entire
  world" 38. The country has seen the rise of
  many popular styles, including ragtime, the
  blues, jazz, rock, RB, doo wop, gospel, soul,
  funk, heavy metal, punk rock, disco, salsa,
  grunge and hip hop.
• American popular music, being well-known across
  the world, has had many milestones. Most
  histories of popular music start with American
  ragtime or Tin Pan Alley David Clarke, however,
  in The Rise and Fall of Popular Music, traces
  popular music back to the European Renaissance
  and through broadsheet ballads and other popular
  traditions 39. Other authors typically look at
  popular sheet music, tracing American popular
  music to spirituals, minstrel shows and
  vaudeville, or the patriotic songs of the
  American Civil War.
• Of especial importance are a handful of
  performers who did more than anyone to create
  American popular music. Louis Armstrong's
  "virtuosity (which) inspired awe among his
  followers" helped make him a "giant figure" in
  the world of jazz, and a major foundation for
  later popular styles 40. Later, following the
  white teen swing phase, a number of vocalists
  like Ella Fitzgerald and the Ink Spots became
  very popular, especially among the youth. A
  number of Italian-American crooners also found a
  major youth audience, including Dean Martin, Tony
  Bennett, Perry Como, Frankie Laine and, most
  famously, the "first pop vocalist to engender
  hysteria among his fans" Frank Sinatra41. Elvis
  Presley and Bill Haley, responsible for
  popularizing rock and roll, also deserve special
  note for changing the whole of popular music,
  both within and without the United States.

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United States Popular musicMusic

• The era of the modern teen pop star, however,
  began in the 1960s. Bubblegum pop groups like The
  Monkees were chosen entirely for their appearance
  and ability to sell records, with no regard to
  musical ability. Pop groups like these remained
  popular into the 1970s, producing such acts as
  the Partridge Family and The Osmonds. By the
  1990s, there were numerous varieties of teen pop,
  including boy bands like NSYNC and the
  Backstreet Boys, while female diva vocalists like
  Christina Aguilera and Britney Spears also
  dominated the charts.
• Recently, American popular music has shifted away
  from teen pop and mainstream rock. In the early
  2000s, it became increasingly rarer for songs
  belonging to these genres to reach the tops of
  the charts. Instead, the charts have yielded
  mostly hip-hop, rap, and RB hits. Also, there
  has been a growing movement towards modern rock
  music since the 90s this movement has owed some
  of its very recent chart hits, such as Fall Out
  Boy's Sugar We're Goin' Down, which peaked at
  number eight on the Hot 100, to the revival of
  the music single through paid digital downloads.

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Country music

• also called country and western music or
  country-western, is an amalgam of popular musical
  forms developed in the Southern United States,
  with roots in traditional folk music, Celtic
  Music, Blues, Gospel music, and Old-time music.
• However, country music is actually a catch-all
  category that embraces several different genres
  of music Nashville sound (the pop-like music
  very popular in the 1960s) bluegrass, a fast
  mandolin, banjo and fiddle-based music
  popularized by Bill Monroe and by the Foggy
  Mountain Boys Western which encompasses
  traditional Western ballads and Hollywood Cowboy
  Music, Western swing, a sophisticated dance music
  popularized by Bob Wills Bakersfield sound
  (popularized by Buck Owens and Merle Haggard)
  Outlaw country Cajun Zydeco gospel oldtime
  (generally pre-1930 folk music) honky tonk
  Appalachian rockabilly neotraditional country
  and jug band.

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Examples of ContemporaryCountry Stars 1980-2005

• Alabama
• Dierks Bentley
• Big and Rich
• Clint Black
• Paul Brandt
• Brooks Dunn
• Garth Brooks
• George Canyon
• Johnny Cash
• Jeremy Castle
• Mary Chapin Carpenter

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Rock and roll

• also spelled rock 'n' roll, especially in its
  first decade, is a genre of music that emerged as
  a defined musical style in American South in the
  1950s, and quickly spread to the rest of the
  country, and the world. From the late 1950s to
  the mid 1990s rock was perhaps the most popular
  form in music in the western world. It later
  evolved into the various different sub-genres of
  what is now called simply 'rock'. As a result,
  "rock and roll" now has two distinct meanings
  either traditional rock and roll in the 1950s
  style, or later rock and even pop music which may
  be very far from traditional rock and roll.

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Rock and roll

• Rock and roll emerged as a defined musical style
  in America in the 1950s, though elements of rock
  and roll can be heard in rhythm and blues records
  as far back as the 1920s. Early rock and roll
  combined elements of blues, boogie woogie, jazz
  and rhythm and blues, and is also influenced by
  traditional Appalachian folk music, gospel and
  country and western. Going back even further,
  rock and roll can trace a foundational lineage to
  the old Five Points district of mid-19th century
  New York City, the scene of the first fusion of
  heavily rhythmic African shuffles and sand dances
  with melody driven European genres, particularly
  the Irish jig.
• Rocking was a term first used by black gospel
  singers in the American South to mean something
  akin to spiritual rapture. By the 1940s, however,
  the term was used as a double entendre,
  ostensibly referring to dancing, but with the
  hidden subtextual meaning of sex an example of
  this is Roy Brown's "Good Rocking Tonight". This
  type of song was usually relegated to "race
  music" (the music industry code name for rhythm
  and blues) outlets and was rarely heard by
  mainstream white audiences. In 1951, Cleveland,
  Ohio disc jockey Alan Freed would begin playing
  this type of music for his white audience, and it
  is Freed who is credited with coining the phrase
  "rock and roll" to describe the rollicking RB
  music that he brought to the airwaves.
• There is much debate as to what should be
  considered the first rock and roll record.
  Candidates include

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Rock and roll

• the 1951 "Rocket 88" by Jackie Brenston His
  Delta Cats, or later and more widely-known hits
  like Chuck Berry's "Maybellene" "Johnny B. Goode"
  or Bo Diddley's "Bo Diddley" or Bill Haley His
  Comets' "Rock Around the Clock" or, as
  RollingStone magazine pointed out, to some
  controversy, in 2005, "That's all right", Elvis
  Presley's first single for SUN records, in
  Memphis. Some historians go further back,
  pointing to musicians like Fats Domino, who were
  recording in the 40s in styles largely
  indistinguishable from rock and roll these
  include Louis Jordan's "Is You Is or Is You Ain't
  My Baby?", Jack Guthrie's "The Oakie Bookie"
  (1947) and Benny Carter and Paul Vandervoort II's
  "Rock Me to Sleep" (1950).
• Main artists starting to score in the main hit
  charts from 1955 onward included the influencial
  and pioneering Bill Haley, Elvis Presley, Fats
  Domino, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee
  Lewis.

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Blues

• Blues is a combination of African work songs,
  field hollers and shouts. It developed in the
  rural south in the first decade of the 20th
  century. The most important characteristics of
  the blues is its use of the blue scale, with a
  flatted or indeterminate third, as well as the
  typically lamenting lyrics though both of these
  elements had existed in African American folk
  music prior to the 20th century, the codified
  form of modern blues (such as with the AAB
  structure) did not exist until the early 20th
  century.
• Donald Clarke has claimed that, in the blues, the
  "verses and musical accompaniment are like two
  voices the accompaniment is a commentary on the
  story being told, and the result is a
  polyrhythmic, almost poly-emotional music. The
  blues is... a passionate, intensely rhythmic way
  of keeping the spirit up, by commenting on
  problems of life and love with lyrics full of
  irony and earthy imagery".

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Hip hop / Rap

• Hip hop music (also commonly referred to as
  "rap") can be seen as a subgenre of RB tradition
  (see above). Hip hop culture, the movement from
  which the music came, began in inner cities in
  the US in the 1970s. The earliest recordings,
  from the late-1970s and early 1980s, are now
  referred to as old school hip hop. In the later
  part of the decade, regional styles developed.
  East Coast hip hop, based out of New York City,
  was by far the most popular as hip hop began to
  break into the mainstream. West Coast hip hop,
  based out of Los Angeles, was by far less popular
  until 1992, when Dr. Dre's The Chronic
  revolutionized the West Coast sound, using slow,
  stoned, lazy beats in what came to be called G
  Funk. Soon after, a host of other regional styles
  became popular, most notably Southern rap, based
  out of Atlanta and New Orleans, primarily.
  Atlanta-based performers like OutKast and Goodie
  Mob soon developed their own distinct sound,
  which came to be known as Dirty South. As hip hop
  became more popular in the mid-1990s, alternative
  hip hop gained in popularity among critics and
  long-time fans of the music.

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Hip hop / Rap

• De La Soul's 3 Feet High and Rising (1989) was
  perhaps the first "alternative hip hop"
  blockbuster, and helped develop a specific style
  called jazz rap, characterized by the use of live
  instrumentation and/or jazz samples. Other less
  popular forms of hip hop include various
  non-American varieties Japan, Britain, Mexico,
  Sweden, Finland, France, Germany, Italy and
  Turkey have vibrant hip hop communities. In
  Puerto Rico, a style called reggaeton is popular.
  Electro hip hop was invented in the 1980s, but is
  distinctly different from most old school hip hop
  (as is go go, another old style). Some other
  genres have been created by fusing hip hop with
  techno (trip hop) and heavy metal (rapcore). In
  the late 1980s, Miami's hip hop scene was
  characterized by bass-heavy grooves designed for
  dancing -- Miami bass music. Horrorcore, or Acid
  Rap is mainly credited to Detroit and the
  Midwest. There are also rappers with Christian
  themes in the lyrics -- this is Christian hip
  hop.
• Perhaps the most recent development in hip hop is
  the Backpacker sub-genre. Charachterized by a
  renewed focus on poetry and Hip Hop Culture, it
  includes artists such as Sage Francis,
  Atmosphere, and Eyedea and Abilities.

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Read about Rock and Roll

• Students are given information to read in
  groups-one person does something else, when the
  other person comes back the group has to give all
  the new knowledge to that person who will compete
  to answer questions for the group.
• Map different music roots in the United States

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Carousel

• place x number of sheets around the room with a
  catefory, in this case music genres (rock and
  roll, country, hip hop, and blues)
• groups of 4-5 move from station to station and
  write down ideas that support the topic to review
  information
• Supplies-colored markers large piece of butcher
  paper
• I pack of sticky tac or tape

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Learn songs from each genre

• ESL through music, activites with songs
• If Rock and Roll, Joan Jet I love Rock n Roll
• View Youve got a Friend powerpoint example

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Project Music

• Presentations of singer and genre
• Rubrics
• Group management

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Jeporady

• Create categories and make questions for each
  increasing difficulty
• Form two teams and rotate the person who will
  answer for the team
• Give 30 seconds to answer
• Review material from the day
• Good activity to review content for a test