about this class
Course Description
History of Rock and Roll is a course designed to familiarize the student with the history of Rock music. Prominent players and groups of each era will be covered, as well as sociological, economic and cultural factors that shaped the many styles of Rock music. Classroom activities will include listening, analyzing, writing, class discussions, research, and presentations.
Course Prerequisites
NONE
Student Learning Objectives/Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course students should be able to:
History of Rock and Roll is a course designed to familiarize the student with the history of Rock music. Prominent players and groups of each era will be covered, as well as sociological, economic and cultural factors that shaped the many styles of Rock music. Classroom activities will include listening, analyzing, writing, class discussions, research, and presentations.
Course Prerequisites
NONE
Student Learning Objectives/Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course students should be able to:
- List in chronological order the prominent ears of Rock music
- Recognize the validity of important artists from each era
- Find relationships between the music and historical, social and economic factors of each era
- Describe technological advances (e.g. multi-track recording, digital synthesis, MIDI, etc.) and the effect of these advances, pertaining to Rock music
- Comprehend basic business aspects (e.g. royalties, mechanicals, production, and marketing) of this music
- Understand the profound impact this music has had throughout the US as well as the rest of the world.
ABOUT THE CURRICULUM
Rock and Roll: An American Story (RRAS) is an educational project focused on the history of Rock and Roll, the music that changed the world. Presented by Steven Van Zandt’s Rock and Roll Forever Foundation, RRAS is the first curriculum to be rolled out nationally that explores the music and its world in this depth. From its roots in blues, country, gospel, and R&B, Rock and Roll and its derivative forms have—for over five decades—touched all facets of our lives, private and public. Rock and Roll is experienced not simply as a sound culture, but as a cinematic and televisual culture, a literary culture, a fashion culture, a political culture, a dance culture, and more. It is lived in many ways. And now, with the introduction of the RRAS curriculum, it can be studied as it is lived.
Aggressively interdisciplinary, the RRAS curriculum and its support materials are geared toward multi-model learning. With lessons tailored for social studies, language arts, media studies, music, and more, it takes a subject matter already important to young people, popular music, and spreads it across the landscape of learning. Meeting students where they live, RRAS is a point of connection between students, their teachers, and the world they live in. With music more a part of our lives than any earlier point in history, now is the time to bring music beyond the music department and into the wider arena of learning.
Rock and Roll: An American Story (RRAS) is an educational project focused on the history of Rock and Roll, the music that changed the world. Presented by Steven Van Zandt’s Rock and Roll Forever Foundation, RRAS is the first curriculum to be rolled out nationally that explores the music and its world in this depth. From its roots in blues, country, gospel, and R&B, Rock and Roll and its derivative forms have—for over five decades—touched all facets of our lives, private and public. Rock and Roll is experienced not simply as a sound culture, but as a cinematic and televisual culture, a literary culture, a fashion culture, a political culture, a dance culture, and more. It is lived in many ways. And now, with the introduction of the RRAS curriculum, it can be studied as it is lived.
Aggressively interdisciplinary, the RRAS curriculum and its support materials are geared toward multi-model learning. With lessons tailored for social studies, language arts, media studies, music, and more, it takes a subject matter already important to young people, popular music, and spreads it across the landscape of learning. Meeting students where they live, RRAS is a point of connection between students, their teachers, and the world they live in. With music more a part of our lives than any earlier point in history, now is the time to bring music beyond the music department and into the wider arena of learning.