2008 Agenda

Below is the preliminary agenda for the 2008 NEH Summer Institute for Teachers: Voices Across Time. Please keep in mind all scheduled events are subject to change.

Week One: July 7 - 11

Moving

Along

Mon

Tues

Weds

Thur

Fri

9:00

-

9:45

Prelude/ Musical Auto-

biographies (4)

 

 

 

 

 

Field Trip:  Rivers of Steel Tour

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lunch and afternoon at

Bulgarian-Macedonian Club

 

 

Prelude/ Musical Auto-

biographies (4)

Prelude/ Musical Auto-

biographies (4)

Prelude/ Musical Auto-

biographies (5)

 

9:45

-

10:30

 

 

Introductions

 

John Koegel:

German and Latin American Immigration

 

 

Mike Seeger

 

“Homemade American Music”

 

 

Teaching Strategies

Activity:

Soundtracks of Our Lives

 

Deane Root:

Overview of “Voices Across Time”

10:30

10:45

Break

Break

Break 

Break

 

10:45

11:30

 

Introduction and explanation of
Final Project

 

Koegel (continued)

 

Seeger (continued)

 

Teaching Strategies (continued)

11:30

12:30

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

12:30

-

1:10

 

Demo of VAT website

 

Koegel (continued)

 

 

Seeger (continued)

Musical Auto-

biographies (4)

1:10

-

2:30

 

 

Guided Tour of University Campus/ Photo IDs taken/ Tour of Music Library

 

Musical Auto-

biographies (4)

 

Musical Auto-

biographies (4)

 

Musical archaeology: How we determine the origins of songs

 

2:30

2:45

Break

Break

Break

2:45

3:15

 

Coda

 

Coda

Lesson Plan Group Meetings

3:15

-

4:30

 

 

Research/

Library

 

Research/

Library

 

Research/

Library

Week 2: July 14-18

Work

Mon

Tues

Weds

Thur

Fri

9:00

-

9:45

Prelude

(Song Activities)

Prelude

(Song

Activities)

Prelude

(Song Activities)

Prelude

(Song Activities)

Prelude

(Song Activities)

 

9:45

-

10:30

 

 

Norm Cohen:

Songs of the Railroad

 

Scott Sandage:

American Industrial-

ization

 

 

Timothy Lynch:

Strike Songs of the Depression

 

Recent labor songs

 

Field Trip to Gettysburg

 

 

Mark Snell

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Performance:

Federal City Brass Band

10:30

10:45

Break

Break

Break

Break

 

10:45

11:30

 

Cohen (continued)

 

Sandage (continued)

 

 

Lynch (continued)

 

“Allentown”

11:30

12:30

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

12:30

-

2:00

 

Bill Schustik 

Work Songs

of the Sea

 

 

Song Analysis

 

Song Analysis: “Mill Mothers Lament” and “Which Side Are You On?”

 

Songs of Migrant Workers: Jornalero Music

2:00

2:15

Break

Break

Break

Break

2:15

3:15

 

 

 

“Song of the Shirt”

 

 

 

 

 

3:15

3:30

 

Coda

 

Coda

 

Coda

 

Coda

3:30

-

5:00

 

Research/ Library

 

Research/ Library

 

Research/ Library

 

Research/ Library

Week 3: July 21 - 25

War & Peace

Mon

Tues

Weds

Thurs

Fri

9:00

-

9:45

Prelude

(Song Activities)

Prelude

(Song Activities)

 

 

 

Field Trip:

Fort Pitt Museum

(The French & Indian War)

Doug MacGregor

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mariana Whitmer:

Songs of the French and Indian War

 

Prelude

(Song Activities)

Prelude

(Song Activities)

 

9:45

- 10:30

 

 

Kate van Winkle Keller:

 

Revolutionary War

 

Scott Sandage:

World Wars

 

 

Alexander Bloom: The Cultural Impact of the Vietnam Experience

 

Teaching Strategies: The Story Behind

the Song

10:30 – 10:45

Break

Break

Break

Break

10:45 – 11:30

 

 

Keller (continued)

 

 

Sandage (continued)

 

 

Bloom (continued)

 

 

Teaching Strategies (continued)

11:30 – 12:30

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

12:30

-

2:00

 

Song Activity: “Free Amerikay”

 

 

Songs of Protest::

“I Didn’t Raise My Boy to be a Soldier”

 

 

Song Analysis:  “Fixin’ to Die Rag”

 

 

 

Root:

Music and Patriotism: What is a national anthem?

 

2:00

-

2:15

Break

Break

 

Break

2:15

-

3:15

 

Song Activity

 

Song Activity

 

 

“Alice’s Restaurant”

 

 Research/ Library

3:15

3:30

Coda

Coda

Coda

Coda

3:30

-

5:00

 

Research/ Library

 

Research/ Library

 

Research/ Library

Group Lesson Plan Meeting (4:00)

Week 4 :July 28-August 1

United/

Divided

Mon

Tues

Weds

Thurs

Fri

Lesson Plan Draft Due

9:00

-

9:45

Prelude

(Song Activities)

Prelude

(Song Activities)

Prelude

(Song Activities)

Prelude

(Song Activities)

Prelude

9:45

-

10:30

 

John Howland:

The Harlem Renaissance

 

 

 

Barbara Tischler:

Music and Civil Rights

 

Susan Cook:

Music and Women’s Rights

 

 

Field Trip:

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Museum

 

 

Teaching Strategies:

I Can Hear It Now

 

10:30

10:45

Break

Break

Break

Break

10:45

-

11:30

 

Howland (continued)

 

 

Tischler (continued)

 

Cook (continued)

 

 

Strategies (continued)

11:30

12:30

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

12:30

-

2:00

 

 

Song Activity: “What Did I Do To Be So Black and Blue?”

 

 

Song Analysis

 

 

Song Analysis:

“I Am Woman”

 

 

Song Analysis

 

2:00

2:15

Break

Break

Break

Break

2:15

3:15

 

“Strange Fruit”

 

Group Lesson Plan Meeting

 

 

 

 

 

3:15

3:30

Coda

 Coda

Coda

Coda

3:30

-

5:00

 

Research/ Library

 

Research/ Library

 

Research/ Library

 

Research/ Library

 

Week 5: August 4-8

Home

 

Mon

Tues

Weds

Thurs

Fri

9:00

-

9:45

Prelude

(Song Activities)

Prelude

(Song Activities)

Prelude

(Song Activities)

Prelude

(Song Activities)

Prelude

 

9:45

-

10:30

 

 

Dale Cockrell:

Little House Music

 

 

Music in the Home: Music Dissemination from Wax Cylinders to the iPod

 

 

Ken Emerson: The Music of the Brill Building

 

 

Introduction

to Hip Hop

 

Lesson Plan Presentations

 

 

 

 

10:30

10:45

Break

Break

Break

Break

10:45

11:30

 

Cockrell (continued)

 

 

Dissemination (continued)

 

Emerson (continued)

 

Hip Hop (continued)

 

Evaluations

11:30

12:30

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

12:30

-

2:00

 

Song Analysis:

“Home on the Range”

 

Garrett Haines, Treelady Studios :

Recent Music Dissemination

 

Song Analysis

 

Hip Hop:

Distance Learning (Rock Hall):

 

 

 

 

 

Song Activity

2:00

2:15

Break

Break

Break

Break

2:15

-

3:45

 

Lesson Plan Presentations

 

Lesson Plan Presentations

 

Lesson Plan Presentations

 

Lesson Plan Presentations

3:45

-

4:00

 

Coda

 

Coda

 

Coda

 

Coda

 

Departure

4:00

-

5:00

 

Research/ Library

 

Research/ Library

 

Research/ Library

 

Closing Dinner

NEH Institutes:

2008 Application

     Letter to Applicants

     NEH Guidelines

2008 Agenda

Frequently Asked Questions:

     Acceptance

     Housing

     Travel

    Stipend

2008 Press Release

Contact Us

Workshops for your school or district:

Scheduling and Funding

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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