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This book is designed to support K-5 classroom teachers as they
integrate music throughout the elementary curriculum. It contains
detailed, practical ideas and examples, including full lesson plans
and over 100 teaching ideas and strategies for integrating music
with visual art, language arts, social studies, science, and
mathematics. Following an overview of the interdisciplinary
approach, the remaining chapters explore connections between music
and other areas of the elementary curriculum. Each chapter also
includes a section addressing national standards with tables
showing the specific standards that are included in each lesson and
activity. This text utilizes the most recent National Core Arts
Standards (2015) as well as the most recent standards in
mathematics, science, social studies, and language arts. All the
lessons in this book are designed to be fully taught by classroom
teachers; the content is accessible to those who lack formal music
training, yet is solidly rooted in research and best practices.
While classroom teachers can teach these lessons on their own, this
book may facilitate partnerships and collaboration between
classroom teachers and music specialists. All the lessons and
activities included in this text have been reviewed by practicing
teachers and most have been field tested in elementary classrooms.
Throughout the book, there is an emphasis on interdisciplinary
lessons that demonstrate valid connections between disciplines
while maintaining the integrity of each discipline involved,
including a teacher-tested model that allows teachers to
successfully create their own interdisciplinary lessons.
The American Song Book, Volume I: The Tin Pan Alley Era is the
first in a projected five-volume series of books that will reprint
original sheet music, including covers, of songs that constitute
the enduring standards of Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, the
Gershwins, and other lyricists and composers of what has been
called the "Golden Age" of American popular music. These songs have
done what popular songs are not supposed to do-stayed popular. They
have been reinterpreted year after year, generation after
generation, by jazz artists such as Charlie Parker and Art Tatum,
Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong. In the 1950s, Frank Sinatra
began recording albums of these standards and was soon followed by
such singers as Tony Bennet, Doris Day, Willie Nelson, and Linda
Ronstadt. In more recent years, these songs have been reinterpreted
by Rod Stewart, Harry Connick, Jr., Carly Simon, Lady GaGa, K.D.
Laing, Paul McCartney, and, most recently, Bob Dylan. As such,
these songs constitute the closest thing America has to a repertory
of enduring classical music. In addition to reprinting the sheet
music for these classic songs, authors Philip Furia and Laurie
Patterson place these songs in historical context with essays about
the sheet-music publishing industry known as Tin Pan Alley, the
emergence of American musical comedy on Broadway, and the "talkie"
revolution that made possible the Hollywood musical. The authors
also provide biographical sketches of songwriters, performers, and
impresarios such as Florenz Ziegfeld. In addition, they analyze the
lyrical and musical artistry of each song and relate anecdotes,
sometimes amusing, sometimes poignant, about how the songs were
created. The American Songbook is a book that can be read for
enjoyment on its own or be propped on the piano to be played and
sung.
In The Country Music Reader Travis D. Stimeling provides an
anthology of primary source readings from newspapers, magazines,
and fan ephemera encompassing the history of country music from
circa 1900 to the present. Presenting conversations that have
shaped historical understandings of country music, it brings the
voices of country artists and songwriters, music industry insiders,
critics, and fans together in a vibrant conversation about a widely
loved yet seldom studied genre of American popular music. Situating
each source chronologically within its specific musical or cultural
context, Stimeling traces the history of country music from the
fiddle contests and ballad collections of the late nineteenth and
early twentieth centuries through the most recent developments in
contemporary country music. Drawing from a vast array of sources
including popular magazines, fan newsletters, trade publications,
and artist biographies, The Country Music Reader offers firsthand
insight into the changing role of country music within both the
music industry and American musical culture, and presents a rich
resource for university students, popular music scholars, and
country music fans alike.
Sidney Poitier remains one of the most recognizable black men in
the world. Widely celebrated but at times criticized for the roles
he played during a career that spanned 60 years, there can be no
comprehensive discussion of black men in American film, and no
serious analysis of 20th century American film history that
excludes him. Poitier Revisited offers a fresh interrogation of the
social, cultural and political significance of the Poitier oeuvre.
The contributions explore the broad spectrum of critical issues
summoned up by Poitier's iconic work as actor, director and
filmmaker. Despite his stature, Poitier has actually been
under-examined in film criticism generally. This work reconsiders
his pivotal role in film and American race relations, by arguing
persuasively, that even in this supposedly 'post-racial' moment of
Barack Obama, the struggles, aspirations, anxieties, and tensions
Poitier's films explored are every bit as relevant today as when
they were first made.
Samuel Daniell can be described as one of the most accomplished yet least-known artists from the era of British exploration. He travelled around southern Africa between 1800 and 1803, and lived in Ceylon until his death in 1811.
His vivid sketches, drawings and watercolours are individuated and accomplished art works. Daniell’s representations of people of colour are remarkable for their perceptiveness and are perhaps unmatched in their sensitivity in the colonial era.
He also produced many drawings and paintings of animals that are noteworthy for their accuracy. His biography is a fascinating example of how art contributed to the accumulation of scientific knowledge and the extension of British imperial power.
Daniell’s drawings are widely scattered, and mostly unpublished. This biography reconstructs his life and travels by bringing together his known works from collections across the world.
The Last Word argues that the Hollywood novel opened up space for
cultural critique of the film industry at a time when the industry
lacked the capacity to critique itself. While the young studio
system worked tirelessly to burnish its public image in the wake of
celebrity scandal, several industry insiders wrote fiction to fill
in what newspapers and fan magazines left out. Throughout the 1920s
and 1930s, these novels aimed to expose the invisible machinery of
classical Hollywood cinema, including not only the evolving
artifice of the screen but also the promotional discourse that
complemented it. As likeminded filmmakers in the 1940s and 1950s
gradually brought the dark side of the industry to the screen,
however, the Hollywood novel found itself struggling to live up to
its original promise of delivering the unfilmable. By the 1960s,
desperate to remain relevant, the genre had devolved into little
more than erotic fantasy of movie stars behind closed doors,
perhaps the only thing the public couldn't already find elsewhere.
Still, given their unique ability to speak beyond the institutional
restraints of their time, these earlier works offer a window into
the industry's dynamic creation and re-creation of itself in the
public imagination.
During the century of British rule of the Indian subcontinent known
as the British Raj, the rulers felt the significant influence of
their exotic subjects. Resonances of the Raj examines the
ramifications of the intertwined and overlapping histories of
Britain and India on English music in the last fifty years of the
colonial encounter, and traces the effects of the Raj on the
English musical imagination. Conventional narratives depict a
one-way influence of Britain on India, with the 'discovery' of
Indian classical music occurring only in the post-colonial era.
Drawing on new archival sources and approaches in cultural studies,
author Nalini Ghuman shows that on the contrary, England was both
deeply aware of and heavily influenced by India musically during
the Indian-British colonial encounter. Case studies of
representative figures, including composers Edward Elgar and Gustav
Holst, and Maud MacCarthy, an ethnomusicologist and performer of
the era, integrate music directly into the cultural history of the
British Raj. Ghuman thus reveals unexpected minglings of peoples,
musics and ideas that raise questions about 'Englishness', the
nature of Empire, and the fixedness of identity. Richly illustrated
with analytical music examples and archival photographs and
documents, many of which appear here in print for the first time,
Resonances of the Raj brings fresh hearings to both familiar and
little-known musics of the time, and reveals a rich and complex
history of cross-cultural musical imaginings which leads to a
reappraisal of the accepted historiographies of both British
musical culture and of Indo-Western fusion.
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