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The African American Identity
SHEET MUSIC SPELL CHECK!

Lesson Overview ■ (Grades 8-12) Students examine the
tension experienced by African-Americans during the
Gilded Age. This lesson includes the study of sheet music
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used are drawn from a time of great change that begins
after Reconstruction’s brief promise of full citizenship
and ends with the First World War’s Great Migration,
when many African-Americans sought greater freedoms
and opportunities by leaving the South for booming industrial cities elsewhere in the nation. Lesson Objective ■
1.Recognize how African-Americans survived in an environment in which they were considered inferior
2.Identify ways in which African-Americans sustained
for themselves a vibrant culture 3.How shared experiences shape a people’s identity ■ www.loc.gov/teachers
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ELVIS PRESLEY A KIND

UNBRIDLED BAD BOY
ORIGINAL STORY EL PASO TEXAS 1960
Elvis Presley El Paso

-Traveling by train to California, Elvis was mobbed
by fans in El Paso Texas on April 20, 1960. 2000
screaming fans jammed our EP Union Depot to admire their idol. The rock ‘n’ roll troubadour’s special car rolled into the sun city at 10:45 p. m. The
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p. m. The train was here for an hour and 40 minutes
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spent some time just strolling around
here and Juarez by myself.” -Elvis
few smiles and
hip-wiggles from
Elvis. Miss Van
Tassel, of 626
Kerbey Avenue,
sneaked through
a group of special police with
a borrowed suitcase and boarded the train with
other passengers
getting on. She
managed to wangle permission to enter the car with
members of the press, and then with lady-like poise,
accepted a kiss on the cheek from
Elvis. “I don’t think I’ll ever wash that cheek again,”
she said. Elvis appeared in the lounge car for a brief
press conference dressed in black velvet pants, black
patent leather shoes, and open-necked red shirt. He
had a slight yellow cast on his handsome features
and his eyes looked sleepy. “It’ll take me a few seconds to get woke up,” Presley told newsmen, and
started signing autographs. He explained that he had
been taking a nap. “I’m not going to get married, not
now anyway,” he sai d. “But if I met the right girl,
why, I’d marry her right off the bat!”
Elvis said he wants to progress into more dramatic
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“I’ve been through here lots of times. I’m sort of a
West Texas boy, after all. I once spent some time
just strolling around here and Juarez by myself. I’d
sure give it a try again right now if the kids would
let me!”
When asked about his next recording, he started to
sing Out in the West Texas town of El Paso..., “ He
interrupted the cheers by saying, “Whoops, I’m not
Marty Robbins, am I?” He said that his next recording will be up to Colonel Parker his manager. The
crowd hung on until the train pulled out a little after
midnight. -END

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Reasonable Doubt 1996

“The studio was like a psychiatrist’s couch for
me,” Jay-Z told Rolling Stone, and his debut is
full of a hustler’s dreams and laments. It established Jay as the premier freestyle rapper of his
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ance from a 16-year-old Foxy Brown on “Ain’t
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Weezer 1994

When it came out, Weezer’s debut was merely a
cool, quirky power-pop album with a couple of
hit singles – “Buddy Holly” and “Undone (The
Sweater Song).” But Rivers Cuomo’s band inÁXHQFHG D OHJLRQ RI VDGVDFN SXQNHUV 7RGD\
they stand just a step below Nirvana in the
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ing studio sessions, the band focused on their
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tet-styled songs, which helped both Cuomo and
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ing vocal: “I had to sing an octave higher than
Rivers. After a lot of practice, I started to get it
down.”

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marketing led to a deal with Payday Records,
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College Dropout 2004

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with a Benz and a backpack” beat the producer-tries-to-rap jinx and broke boundaries others wouldn’t acknowledge – from the gospel riot
“Jesus Walks” to the Luther Vandross tribute
“Slow Jamz.”

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when, while driving home from a California recording studio after working late, he fell asleep
at the wheel and was involved in a near-fatal car
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accident, and helped lay the foundation for his
debut album.

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Automatic For The People 1992

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album. Largely acoustic, and with string parts
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The Shape Of Jazz To Come 1959

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Mothers Of Invention 1968

A milestone of studio mischief and a merciless
satire of anything that upset Frank Zappa off in
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proached by Ray Collins who asked him to take
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Collins and the group’s original guitarist. The
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Coleman’s sound was so out-there, one audience at an early gig threw his sax over a cliff. He
pioneered free jazz: no chords, no harmony, any
player can take the lead – music as lyrical as it is
demanding, particularly on “Lonely Woman.”
The album to be titled Focus on Sanity, after
one of the songs on the album, it was ultimately
titled The Shape of Jazz to Come at the urging
of Atlantic producer Nesuhi Ertegun, who felt
that the title would give consumers “an idea
about the uniqueness of the LP.”

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operator in Los Angeles, he studied music theory and harmony and developed an idiosyncratic
take on country blues and folk forms. Coleman’s
big break came in Los Angeles when he caught
the attention of Percy Heath and John Lewis, the
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Lewis encouraged Coleman and his trumpeter
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