The Music Integration Blues

1. The Music Integration Blues

2. Who Am I?

3. Who are you?

4. At the end of this session.. WE will have developed some Strategies that use the Blues as a tool to integrate music into the core Curriculum of our classrooms

5. What do We Know about the Blues?

6. African-American writer Ralph Ellison said …. that although the blues are often about struggle and depression, they are also full of determination to overcome difficulty "through sheer toughness of spirit." This resilience in the face of hardship is one of the hallmarks of the blues poem.

7. Where do the Blues come from? We don’t know for sure but…..

8. The Sound that Jazz Makes

9. The Objectives For the sound that Jazz makes Lesson Plan The students will become familiar with important historical periods from an african American perspective. The students will be able to say where the Blues and other american musical styles come from The students will become familiar with the importance of African american music and culture

10. Where do the Blues come from?

11. We Do know this • They probably come from Field Hollers and work songs The Blues are distinctly American • They dealt with hard Times

12. We Also know That the blues are the most important musical root for all american popular music styles

13. Aretha Franklin • Cold play • Country Without the Blues there would be no • Led Zeppelin • Rn’B • Brittney Spears • Hip Hop Rock n’ Roll • The Beatles • Jazz • Jonas Brothers • Lady gaga • Eric Clapton

14. What do you think?

15. Alexander, Blues, and onomatopoeia.

16. Objectives for the Alexander Lesson Plan The students will make connections between literature and music The students will create onomatopoeia’s The students will be introduced to the idea that anybody can write a blues song and that the blues are an appropriate way to deal with sad feelings.

17. What do you think?

18. Langston Hughes and the Blues Poem http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/hughes http://www.milforded.org/schools/foran/turtola/hughesblues.html

19. Objectives for the Blues Poem Plan The students will make connections between literature and music The students will create a blues poem/song The students Will become familiar with a distinctly american poetic Form

20. One of the most popular forms of American poetry, the blues poem stems from the African American oral tradition and the musical tradition of the blues. A blues poem typically takes on themes such as struggle, and despair, among others. It often (but not necessarily) follows a form, in which1. a statement is made in the first line 2. a variation is given in the second line, 3. an ironic alternative is declared in the third line.

21. Teacher, what’s a variation? Another Objective and non-musical both musical vocabulary

22. Homesick Blues By Langston Hughes De railroad bridge’s A sad song in de air.

23. De railroad bridge’s A sad song in de air.

24. Ever time de train pass I wants to go somewhere.

25. I went down to de station. Ma heart was in ma mouth.

26. I went down to de station. Ma heart was in ma mouth.

27. Lookin’ for a box car to Roll me to da south.

28. Homesick blues, Lawd. ‘Sa terrible thing to have.

29. Homesick blues is A terrible thing to have.

30. To keep from cryin’ I opens ma mouth an laughs.

31. Now You write one You don’t need to use the voice that he used Use your own voice Use your own material If you have questions I will help

32. What do you think?