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Jump Jim Crow: Precursors to the Civil Rights Movement

Power to the People! Sounds of the Civil Rights Movement (9th–12th) / Jump Jim Crow: Precursors to the Civil Rights Movement

Lesson Paths & Learning Objectives

  1. Understanding Segregation

    • Identify characteristics that distinguish between musical categories.
    • Make connections to your own life by classifying songs you know and like.
    • 10+ minutes

  2. Minstrelsy: The Troubling Roots of American Musical Theater

    • Explain and aurally identify the defining characteristics of four broad categories used to classify music: traditional, classical, popular, fusion.
    • Explain the usefulness and limitations of these categories.
    • 20+ minutes

  3. Before They Were Enslaved

    • Identify characteristics that distinguish between musical categories.
    • Make connections to your own life by classifying songs you know and like.
    • 10+ minutes

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