NEH Summer Institute for Teachers 2006 Agenda
This quick week-by-week list includes the names of lecturers, the topics of their talks, performers and the focus of their performances, and field trip locations. What else will we be doing? Working on group projects, learning new teaching strategies and, of course, discussing songs, songs, and more songs!
Please keep in mind that this schedule is a work in progress. It may evolve further before the start of the 2006 Institute.
Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5
Week 1 (June 26-30): Music, Place and Identity
Monday
Introduction Day
Welcome and Overview of “Voices Across Time”
Introduction and explanation of song activities and final group project
Demo of Voices Across Time Website
Guided tour of University Campus
Tuesday
Lecture: Victor Greene, "European Immigration"
Performance: Mike Seeger, "African-American Songs
Wednesday
Lecture: Mike Seeger, "Music of the Appalachians"
Thursday
Field Trip: Rivers of Steel Pittsburgh Tour
Lunch and Afternoon at Bulgarian-Macedonian Club
Friday
Lecture: Joe Horowitz, "Dvorak in America"
Week Two (July 3-7): Transplanted Cultures
Wednesday
Lecture: Joe Trotter "African Americans in Colonial Culture"
Thursday
Lecture: Tim Shannon, "Anglo-Religious Cultures"
Performance: Bill Schustik, "Music in the Classroom"
Friday
Lecture: Adelaide Reyes, "The Vietnamese Experience"
Saturday
Field Trip: Gettysburg
Week Three (July 10-14): Conflicts!
Monday
Lecture: The Role of Bands During the Civil War
Tuesday
Lecture: Scott Sandage, "Patriotism and Politics 1900-1950"
Field Trip: Soldiers and Sailors Museum
Wednesday
Lecture: Scott Sandage "Race Music During World War II"
Thursday
Performance: Jay Ungar and Molly Mason, "Music of the Civil War"
Friday
Lecture: Alexander Bloom, "The Cultural Impact of the Vietnam Experience"
Saturday
Optional Field Trip: Fort Pitt Museum
Week 4 (July 17-21): Music as Popular Culture
Monday
Lecture: Dale Cockrell, "American Popular Music"
Performance: Home Front, "The Songs of Stephen Foster"
Tuesday
Lecture: Susan Key, "Voices That Are Gone"
Wednesday
Lecture: Deane Root, "Reconfiguring the Cultural Landscape: Radio and Recordings"
Lecture: Mariana Whitmer, "Music and Technology"
Lecture: Garrett Haines, "Web Distribution"
Thursday
Field Trip: Andy Warhol Museum
Friday
Lecture: Cheryl Keyes, "Hip Hop"
Week 5 (July 24-28): Social Activism
Monday
Lecture: Ken Emerson, "Notes About Teaching History, Music and Race"
Tuesday
Lecture: Kerran Sanger, "The Civil Rights Movement: Appropriating Spirituals"
Wednesday
Barbara Tischler, "Social Change in the 1960s"
Thursday
Field Trip: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
Friday
Wrapping up!
This agenda was last updated on November 9, 2005.