Black History Month Music Lessons: Africa, Afro-Caribbean, Jazz, and more!

These slides include a variety of lessons, songs, and games targeted for studying music for Black History Month or anytime of year when discussing Jazz, African music, slavery, or the civil rights movement. All text is editable but the backgrounds and music are not. Included are links to outside videos and MP3 files of music.

What's included...

1. Introduction slide
2. Music from Ghana: facts, map, song game music and directions, drumming video from Brown University
3. Music from Liberia: facts, map, welcome song, and link to the Kennedy Center
4. Music from Jamaica: facts of Afro-Caribbean music, map, music and accompaniment patterns
5. Freedom songs: facts, map, outside link to Carnegie Music Hall's Musical Explorer's website to hear from two artists that perform Freedom Songs, video of John Legend performing We Shall Overcome, music to Follow The Drinking Gourd
6. Jazz music: Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, read aloud by Melissa Escobar with Ellington's music in the background, form and movement slide, compare contrast Ellington and Tchaikovsky slide, jazz band seating arrangement drag and drop slide

Areas of interest...

Prekindergarten, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, third grade, fourth grade, fifth grade, sixth grade, seventh grade, eighth grade, elementary general music, middle school general music, Black History Month, jazz, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, music from Africa, music from Jamaica, freedom songs, civil rights movement, music of slavery, orchestra, compare contrast activities, travel the world, music through the world, written songs, song games, movement activities, form activities, music analysis

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