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Going Back Home: An Artist Returns to the South. Toyomi Igus and Michele Wood
Honoring Our Ancestors: Stories and Pictures by Fourteen Artists. Edited by Harriet Rohmer
Bryan, Ashley. All Night, All Day: A Child's First Book of African-American
Spirituals. Atheneum, 1991.
Bryan, Ashley. I'm Going to Sing: Black American Spirituals, Volume Two.
Knopf, 1982.
Greenberg, Keith Elliot. Rap. Lerner Publications, 1988.
Johnson, James Weldon. Lift Every Voice and Sing. Hawthorn Books, 1970.
Kliment, Bud. Ella Fitzgerald. Chelsea House, 1988.
Lawrence, Jacob. The Great Migration: an American Story. HarperTrophy, 1994.
Mattox, Cheryl Warren. Let's Get the Rhythm of the Band: A Child's
Introduction to Music from African-American Culture with History and Song.
JTG of Nashville, 1993.
Monceaux, Morgan. Jazz: My Music, My People. Knopf, 1994.
Shange, Ntozake. I Live in Music. Stewart, Tabori, and Chang, 1994.
Silverman, Jerry. Just Listen to this Song I'm Singing: African-American
History through Song. Millbrook Press, 1996.
These are songs or artists featured in i see the rhythm,
organized by era. In many cases, an artist has many collections that cover
the same material. If this is the case, the discography simply states the
artist's name and “Various collections,” since many albums can be
used interchangeably. These are only suggestions and beginning points for
your reference. A wide range of music could be used in conjunction with
the book.
Overview
Say it Loud! A celebration of Black Music in America (Rhino), a 6-CD compilation
Trying to Get Home: A History of African American Song (Heebie Jeebie Music), videotape
Origins
Drums of Passion series, by Babatunde Olatunji (Rykodisc)
Africa and Mali to Memphis (Putumayo)
Slave Songs
“Let My People Go,” on various gospel collections
Blues
Mali to Memphis compilation (Putumayo)
B.B. King, “Why I Sing the Blues,” on various collections
Ragtime
Scott Joplin, “Maple Leaf Rag,” on The Entertainer (Madacy Records, 1995) and other collections
Jazz Beginnings
“Jelly Roll&@#148; Morton, various collections
Louis Armstrong, various collections
Swing
Duke Ellington, “It Don't Mean a Thing,” on Echoes of Harlem and various collections
Cab Calloway, “Minnie the Moocher,” on Best of the Big Bands (Sony/Columbia 1990) and various collections
Jazz Women
Ella Fitzgerald, various collections
Billie Holiday, “Strange Fruit” and “God Bless the Child,” on various collections
Be Bop
Charlie Parker, various collections
Dizzy Gillespie, various collections
Cool Jazz
Miles Davis, Birth of the Cool (EMD/Blue Note, 1998) and various collections
Charles Mingus, “Fables of Faubus,” on various collections
Gospel
Mahalia Jackson, “Move On Up a Little Higher,” on Greatest Hits (Sony/Columbia 1963) and various collections
Aretha Franklin, various collections
Rhythm & Blues / Soul
Aretha Franklin, “Respect,” on various collections
James Brown, “Say it Loud–I'm Black and I'm Proud”
Black Rock
Little Richard, “Tutti Frutti” and “Good Golly, Miss Molly,ž on various collections
Jimi Hendrix, “If 6 was 9” and “The Star Spangled Banner,” on Experience Hendrix (UNI/MCA, 1998)
Funk
James Brown, various collections
Earth, Wind and Fire, That's the Way of the World (Sony/Columbia, 1975)
Rap/Hip Hop
Arrested Development, “Africa's Inside Me,” on various collections
Queen Latifah, “Mama Gave Birth to the Soul Children,” on All Hail the Queen (1989) (Note: There is some obscenity on the introduction to this song, but none on the song itself.)
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Linda Fox, Bree Picower, and Carrie Secret participated in a Children's Book Press LitLinks project at Prescott Elementary School in the 2000-2001 academic year. Linda, Bree, and Carrie used i see the rhythm to teach thematic units in African American history. Prescott serves a diverse group of students in West Oakland, California and is nationally recognized for its innovative and culturally relevant curriculum and instruction.
Maya Christina Gonzalez serves as LitLinks Artist-in-Residence at Prescott Elementary School. Maya has illustrated eight books for Children's Book Press.
The 2000-2001 LitLinks project at Prescott Elementary school and This Guide for Teachers was made possible in part by the generous support of the California Arts Council
Please share your own ideas for how to use i see the rhythm in the classroom. We'll be pleased to post your work on the website for other teachers to use. Email us your lesson plans at educators@childrensbookpress.org.
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Chrissy Rodriguez, a fifth-grade teacher at César Chávez Academy, writes that you can use i see the rhythm, to teach students about the Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment. Have students review the timeline on page eight and
discuss whether conditions were improving for African Americans during the period of the “Blues.” Ask students what the line “I see the birth of the blues in people emancipated but not yet free” means. Read the Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment,
and listen to examples of blues. What do the blues tell us about the differences between emancipation and freedom?
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