General Music Resources for Black History Month

Nine names you need to know! Each composer is introduced with a quick-read Bio, brief Composer Connections facts, and a Listening Lab identifying important works and key elements to discover in each musical

How can we engage with diverse populations, repertoire, and identities while upholding integrity and achieving equity? What are cultural appropriation, othering, tokenizing, and essentializing? How can we

Use jazz to develop children's creativity! This collection of 60 jazz-based teaching strategies is designed to foster music making, creative movement, and improvisation in the K-5 music classroom. The

This collection highlights the ingenuity of the people who were instrumental in helping guide folks from enslavement to freedom along the Underground Railroad. Using quilts and songs, they were able to

Women in music are brilliant, creative, brave, and resilient. They are composers, conductors, singers, musicologists, electronic music producers, and so much more! In this vibrantly illustrated picture

Learn to produce hip-hop tracks! This book traces the technological evolution of hip-hop from its inception to contemporary times, including the hits of the major eras and regional subgenres of hip-hop,

Nominated for a spoken-word Grammy, this book combines Questlove's deep musical expertise with his curiosity about history, examining America over the past 50 years. Focusing on the years 1971 to the

Introduce a new generation of music enthusiasts to 17 legendary jazz artists who have enriched the world with their incredible talents. Dr. McCurdy's illuminating stories about the lives, times, and music

B.B. King was the acknowledged “King of the Blues.” In this second edition of the popular book, Eric E. Dahl picks up where the story left off. The new chapters cover the passing of B.B. King,

This vibrant set of 48 posters covers 24 of our most well-known male and female jazz musicians. Perfect for use during Jazz Appreciation Month, or for teaching about black history and female representation

Introduce your students to jazz through great literature combined with learning by doing. This second volume includes step-by-step lessons, created by Sharon Burch, that combine projectable content and

The African American culture has made many lasting contributions to life in this country and all over the world and this collection of eight arrangements will give you strong programming across the genre of

This two-disc DVD package from award-winning drummer, author, and educator Daniel Glass offers a sweeping look at 100 years of music evolution, covering the end of the Civil War (1865) to the dawn of the

Introduce students to jazz through great literature combined with learn by doing. Step-by-step projectable lessons combine content and audio/video recordings of Wynton Marsalis and Jazz at Lincoln Center

This standards-based hip-hop curriculum is an innovative resource for middle/high school general music classes. The program is designed to help teachers involve more students in their music programs by

We come from many different lands, yet we are all the followers of dreams. Can you hear the heartbeat of the freedom marchers Harriet Tubman, Abraham Lincoln, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther King? The dreams

Jazz is the music of America! From New Orleans to Chicago, from the cotton fields to the Cotton Club, you will learn about such jazz greats as Fats Waller, Cab Calloway, Benny Goodman, Billie Holiday, and