Handout
Other

Folk Lib Index: A Library of Folk Music Links

For Students 9th - 10th
Contains many links to information relating to folk music. The links go to artists pages, music genres, articles and folk music venues.
Website
Other

Davey D's Hip Hop Corner: History of Hip Hop

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers an extensive history of hip hop and rap, for those who want to know where it all came from!
Activity
Other

Shanties and Sea Songs

For Students 9th - 10th
This site features lyrics to numerous sea songs and shanties. Also, related information and weblinks are included. Although online sound clips would be nice, at least good sources of recordings of this type of music are listed.
Interactive
PBS

Pbs Kids Go: Chuck Vanderchuck "Something Something" Explosion!

For Students 9th - 10th
Interactive site that teaches kids about jazz, jazz instruments, and writing jazz music. Includes games,videos, and lots of great sounds.
Website
Other

Ur Camelot Project: Sources for Arthur Legends

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource includes listings for general Arthurian studies, journals, Arthurian names, bibliographies, overviews and studies of particular periods or genres, Arthurian art and music, and related websites.
Website
Other

New Wave City: Home Page

For Students 9th - 10th
A good, informative site describing New Wave music and fashion. Includes a history of New Wave City and how it has played a role in new wave music from 1977 to 1985.
Website
Other

Primarily a Cappella: Homepage

For Students 9th - 10th
A general website from Primarily A Cappella focusing on the world of a cappella singing. Find a recording. Look for an arrangement. Discover instructional materials such as books and videos. Find out what is happening in this fast...
Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Storytelling in Ritual and Performance in Bali

For Students 9th - 10th
Balinese stories are continually told and retold. The Kayonan is the first and last puppet seen in the Balinese wayang shadow theater. As it dances, it symbolizes the living tradition of storytelling that deeply explains and entertains,...
Primary
Digital Public Library of America

Dpla: Rock 'N' Roll: Beginnings to Woodstock

For Students 9th - 10th
The resources in this set highlight the artists and sounds that were central to the rock 'n' roll musical genre that contributed to social and cultural change in America beginning in the 1950s.
Article
Other

Acid Jazz: But Is It Jazz?

For Students 9th - 10th
A lengthy article discussing the validity of Acid Jazz as a genre.
Website
PBS

Pbs: Arts

For Students 9th - 10th
The home on the web for arts-related content that airs on PBS stations. You can link to the program sites of long-running arts broadcasts, sample special exhibitions, and investigate what the network is airing or has recently aired on...
Handout
Other

Run d.m.c.

For Students 9th - 10th
A biography amd discography of early rap group Run-D.M.C.
Website
Other

Will Smith, Fresh Prince

For Students 9th - 10th
Contains a biography of rapper/actor Will Smith (aka The Fresh Prince), among the first Grammy-winning rap artists.
Article
Scott Alexander

Red Hot jazz.com: Tom Brown's "Jass" Band

For Students 9th - 10th
Stop here at RedHotJazz.com for some early history of Dixieland jazz, dating to the early 1900's and one of the first known jazz bands.
Handout
Other

Personal Site: David Seville and the Chipmunks

For Students 9th - 10th
This personal site provides information on the creator of Dave Seville and the Chipmunks, Ross Bagdasarian, and how he started The Chipmunks.
Article
Other

The Disco History Page

For Students 9th - 10th
Details the history of disco music and discusses popular performers of the genre.
Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: An I Pod Inspired Poetry Lesson: Poems vs Lyrics

For Teachers 9th - 10th
After listening and analyzing song lyrics and, subsequently, doing the same analysis with poems, learners will discover how similar song writing and poetry writing can be. Students will get their own chance to write a small version of...
Website
Other

Famous Singers

For Students 9th - 10th
Biographical profiles of famous singers in major musical genres. Includes photo and links to snippets of their songs.
Handout
Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: Guide to Black History: Taj Mahal

For Students 9th - 10th
This entry from Encyclopedia Brittanica's Guide to Black History features Taj Mahal, an American singer, guitarist, songwriter, and one of the pioneers of what came to be called world music. He combined blues and other African-American...
Handout
Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: Marvin Gaye

For Students 9th - 10th
This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Marvin Gaye, an American soul singer-songwriter-producer who, to a large extent, ushered in the era of artist-controlled popular music of the 1970s. Gaye's father was a storefront...
Website
Other

Lyrics to Shanties and Sea Songs

For Students 9th - 10th
Find lyrics to numerous sea songs, shanties, and pilot songs.