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Staker/APHGNovember 2011

Unit 3 - GeoMusic Assignment

** Groups of Three, Four or Five **

Instructions:

  1. Make a list of no less than 12 and no more than 15 songs that have some geographical significance to what has been or will be studied inour AP Human Geography class.
  1. The group will edit short sound clips (15 seconds) on to a CD, DVD or Flash Drive. The clips cannot have lyrics that say the name of the setting but should give CLUES as to the setting.

For example: “Sweet Home Alabama” is unacceptable

For example: “Now Watergate does not bother me. Does your conscience bother you?” That’s acceptable.

  1. Each group will print an answer sheet that lists what scale the correct answer will be. In the above example the scale would be: What state?

Another example could be the scale for the Beach Boys’ Kokomo. What region? With the answer being “the Caribbean.”

  1. Before the day of the quiz each group should make sure they test their media to make sure everything is in working order.
  1. On the day of the quiz each group should hand out their answer sheets and play the recording.
  1. On the day of the quiz, after playing the clips, the group should collect the answer sheets and go thru the clips again and explain what the setting was and why they chose that clip?
  1. Each member of the group will write a concluding paper explaining how THREE songs from their group’s media presentation and their associated lyrics relate to some aspect(s) of human geography. This can be a relationship associated with a place name, language, religion, politics, economics, etc. Basically anything geographic that we study in this course. Suggested length of this paper should be 1.5 pages word processed in total. Paper needs to be turned in on the day you present your songs in class (December 2011).

** Great web sites for finding lyrics related to GeoMusic assignment: **

*Folk songs sorted by country

*Great explanations of lyrics

*A universe of music lyrics!

*all the lyrics you could ever want!

*lots of lyrics to every type of music

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*All genres of music lyrics are available at this site.

Staker/AP GeographyNovember 2011

Instructions for Editing Music

Editing music is relatively simple. You can use your own music editing program or:

  • Download a program from called GoldWave 5.2 (it’s free to try – you get 2000 free commands before you have to purchase it!).
  • Once you are in the program there are instructions in the HELP menu on where to go from there.
  • It is very important that once you edit your clip from your songs that you go to File, Save as selection. Then you should be able to put all of your edited clips onto your media.
  • Of course you will have to somehow get the music first! Once again, as stated above, make sure once you edit your music clips that you file save as selection the edited file and then put it on your media!
  • You can download your music or you can work with music off of your own personal media.
  • Try to put a HUGE variety of the music in your media to make it more difficult!
  • Make me aware of any editing problems you have sooner rather than later so I can help you with this before you get too close to your presentation date.

NOTES ON MUSIC and POPULAR CULTURE:

Music and Popular Culture - The reality of popular music is scary. Think about all the money that is spent by people to market music, advertising in magazines like Rolling Stone and obviously the money spent on producing music, purchasing it and spending money on concert tickets!

Music-scapes of America:What They Say About Us

oPrimate Cities vs. Cultural Hearths

oUS Folk Music

oAppalachia and Blue Grass

oMississippi Delta and Blues

oUrbanization and Migration

oChess Records & Chicago

oRegionalism and Sub-cultures

o Surf Music and Southern California

oCultural Assimilation and Pluralism (Melting Pot)

oMotown & Detroit

oStax Records and Memphis

oGeographic Cycle of Popular Music

oPrimate Cities vs. Emerging Cultural Hearths

Music-scapes of America:What They Say About Us (CONT)

oMusic and Entertainment

oMusic and Identity

oMusic and Economics

oMusic and Protest

oMusic and the Environment

oMusic and the Human Condition

oThe Legacy of Rock n’ Roll

oMore than Music

oAn Attitude

oThe American Dream?

Music Reflects Essential Geographic Concepts

oMigration

oDiffusion

oCultural Conflict

oHuman Impact & Environmental Change

oThe Legacy of the Baby Boomers

o“So What Happened to my Parents?”

Some types and styles of music:

Baroque / music characterized by highly embellished melodies and fugal and contrapuntal forms; (ex.: J.S. Bach and Vivaldi)
Classical / used a basic three-part form, known as the first movement sonata form; this developed into the four part pattern of the sonata; the music conformed to certain standards of form and complexity; there was balance, simplicity and restraint (ex.: Mozart and Haydn)
Romantic / a type of 18th and early 19th music that was a revolt against the artistic, political and philosophical principals associated with classical music; this music has freedom of form and spirit, with an emphasis on feeling and originality and the personality of the artist himself with an interest in the nature, the East, and the common man (ex.: Chopin, Liszt, and Wagner)
Folk / music made and handed down by the common people; the music is transmitted through general culture from one generation to the next (ex.: Pete Seeger and Arlo Guthrie)
Jazz: / music originally improvised, by now also arranged, characterized by syncopation, rubato (with some notes arbitrarily lengthened and others correspondingly shortened used as a musical direction to indicate flexibility and expressiveness), usually heavily accented rhythms, dissonances, individualized melodic variations and unusual tonal effects on the saxophone, clarinet, trumpet, trombone; it originated in New Orleans among African American musicians (ex.: Duke Ellington and Miles Davis)
Gospel / a style of folk singing originally associated with evangelistic revival meetings; music having to do with the gospel (the good story or good news from the Bible) or with evangelism (salvation by faith in the atonement of Jesus) (ex.: Mahalia Jackson)
Rock and Roll / a form of popular music characterized by a strong and regular rhythm, which evolved from jazz and the blues (ex: Elvis Presley)
Blues / African American folk music characterized by minor harmonies, with a slow tempo and melancholy words; a form of jazz evolved from this style (ex.: James P. Johnson and Bessie Smith)
Hip Hop / Music that originated in the Bronx, NY and developed in the last twenty years that represents a gang sub-culture of the USA; the music has components of rap, break dancing and graffiti; the music has layers of sounds with over voicing of a DJ or singer and use of electronic tracks combined and spliced in (ex.: Run- D.M.C. and Queen Latifah)