Make certain your students understand that while often perceived as melancholic, the Blues is a healing music born from the African American experience in the USA, and that this music laid the foundation for Jazz, Rock, Funk, House, Techno, R&B, Soul and Hip Hop and all related styles of music.
Objectives
To engage your students' imagination around sound, identity and the cosmos.
To introduce the history of the Blues and the many genres of music that it inspired.
Essential Questions
What is a mixtape?
What is the purpose of a mixtape?
Using NASA’s “The Golden Record” as a reference point, this lesson introduces students to the history of the Blues and asks them to create a mixtape of sounds and songs that tell their generation’s story.
