Sing It the Way It Was: Using Folk and Popular Music To Teach and Understand American History - Softcover

Rodnitzky, Dr. Jerry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1492123269 ISBN 13: 9781492123262

Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

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Sing It the Way It Was is a work that suggests how you can use folk and popular music to teach and understand American history. The author has used music to supplement his classes throughout his career. The book includes a discography of American songs useful for the classroom teacher at all levels of learning. Teaching history supplemented with music enhances the student's knowledge of the past while adding to his enjoyment of music.

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Jerry L. Rodnitzky is professor of history at the University of Texas at Arlington, where he specializes in recent American social, cultural, and intellectual history. He holds bachelors and masters degrees from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in history from the University of Illinois. His books include Minstrels of the Dawn: The Folk-Protest Singer as a Cultural Hero (1976), and more recently, Jazz-Age Boomtown (1997), Feminist Phoenix: The Rise and Fall of a Feminist Counterculture (1999), and Lights, Camera, History: Portraying the Past in Film (2007). He is also the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters. He is a founding and continuing advisory editor of the journal, Popular Music and Society and an advisory editor for The Journal of Texas Music History.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1492123269
• ISBN 13: 9781492123262
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 88
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