Jazz in America

Music and culture are intimately linked. Ask your learners to find connections between jazz and the culture of the 1920s though a jigsaw activity and writing assignment. All pupils read one of three articles and get together in mixed...

Designed as a teacher resource, a packet identifies resources and approaches instructors can use to incorporate jazz into their history classes. Materials are identified by historical era, from the roots of jazz prior to World War I to...

Innovation, politics, race, war...these themes are continuously evident in humanity over the course of history, and are revealed with spectacular imagery and commentary by famed documentarian Ken Burns. While primarily focusing on...

Students learn the basic elements of music and gain an understanding of the elements found in Jazz.

Students learn where Jazz came from and why it is an important part of America's history.

Students explore the Jazz of today and its future. They answer questions and listen to music.

Learners explore jazz and its origins by focusing on the people in which Jazz came from.

Students explore different instruments and what role they play in Jazz. They also each person's role in a democratic society.

Students explore Free Jazz and Fusion by answering questions and listening to music.

Students participate in a class discussion about jazz music, compare improvisation with regular conversion, listen to various jazz musicians and compare and contrast their individual sounds.