NEH Summer Institute for Teachers 2004 Agenda Highlights
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Week 1: Transplanted Cultures
Deane Root: Welcome and Overview of “Voices Across Time”
Deane Root is a musicologist, teacher, performer, researcher, author, editor, bibliographer, archivist, librarian, museologist, and administrator for American music. As Director of the Center for American Music and Curator of the Foster Hall Collection at the University of Pittsburgh, Deane has brought one of the largest repositories of musical Americana into the mainstream of academic life through research, teaching, interpretive performance, and conservation of music in the context of its cultural and social roles in the history of the United States of America. Deane is widely known for his work in providing access to information and source materials in American music history. As chair of the Department of Music at the University of Pittsburgh, Deane has helped promote an integrated curriculum of historical musicology, ethnomusicology, theory and analysis, with solid grounding in music research and bibliography skills.
Field Trip: Old Economy Village, with lecture by Raymond Shepherd
Ray Shepherd is Site Historian at Old Economy Village and Museum, retired.
Joe Trotter: “African-Americans in Colonial Culture”
Joe Trotter is Mellon Professor of History and Head of the History Department at Carnegie Mellon University. He is a specialist in U.S. urban, labor, and African-American history. In addition to books on African American life and labor in Milwaukee, West Virginia, and the Ohio Valley, Professor Trotter’s most recent publication is a two volume textbook on the African American experience from its African beginnings through recent times. His articles and reviews have appeared in a variety of edited works as well as professional journals. His current activities include service on a variety of editorial boards; President of the Labor and Working Class History Association; and director of Carnegie Mellon’s Center for African American Urban Studies and the Economy (CAUSE). In addition to research on black workers in the urban deep south, Professor Trotter is currently completing a study of black workers in the 19th and 20th century U.S.
Kim Gruenwald: “Assimilation vs. Conflict: Reconsidering 'The Frontier in American History' by Frederick Jackson Turner”
Kim M. Gruenwald is Associate Professor of History at Kent State University in Ohio. When she entered graduate school, she took up the position of editorial assistant at the Western Historical Quarterly at Utah State University. Her thesis focused on the experience of Utah’s Indians in twentieth-century public schools, and she published her conclusions later in the form of an article. Dr. Gruenwald earned her Ph.D. from the University of Colorado in 1994, turning her attention to the trans-Appalachian frontier. She is the author of River of Enterprise: The Commercial Origins of Regional Identity in the Ohio Valley, 1790-1850.
Susan Donley: Teaching Strategies: Soundtracks of Our Lives
Susan Donley is a museum educator and multimedia developer who specializes in creating art and history educational materials and teacher workshops. She has done work for the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation, Fallingwater, the Pittsburgh Children’s Museum, WQED Pittsburgh, National Geographic, and the White House Historical Association, to name a few. She has just finished a fourth grade textbook Pennsylvania, Our Home for Gibbs Smith Publishers.
A strong advocate of integrating the arts across the curriculum, she has designed and conducted many well-received teacher workshops on state and local history, multicultural education, and historic preservation. She has been the curriculum developer for the Voices Across Time Teachers Guide since 1997.
Pete DiNardo Introduction to Critical Thinking
Pete DiNardo learns and teaches about American history at Mt. Lebanon High School outside Pittsburgh, PA and part-time for the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Education. He has previously taught in Los Angeles and Massachusetts. His scholarly concentration has focused on race and culture in 20th century America, though he has learned as much from his wife and two children as from books and archives.
Timothy Shannon “Anglo/Religious Cultures in Colonial America”
Timothy J. Shannon is an Associate Professor of History at Gettysburg College, where he teaches Early American, Native American, and British history. His publications include Indians and Colonists at the Crossroads of Empire: The Albany Congress of 1754 (Cornell University Press, 2000), which received the Distinguished Book Award from the Society of Colonial Wars, Atlantic Lives: A Comparative Approach to Early America (Pearson Longman, 2004), and with Victoria Bissell Brown, Going to the Source: The Bedford Reader in American History, 2 volumes (Bedford Books, 2004). His current research explores the material culture of European-Indian diplomacy in the eighteenth century.
Bill Schustik; “Bringing Live Music into the Classroom” (Performance and discussion)
For more information visit: www.billschustik.com.
Phil Wilkin: “Evaluating History Resources on the Internet”
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Week 2: Music as Popular Culture
Deane Root: “American Popular Music”
Visit to the Stephen Foster Collection: Developments in the dissemination of music
Scott Sandage: “Patriotism and Politics (1900-1940)”
Song Discussion: Music and Patriotism, Part 1: "Grand Old Rag"/"Grand Old Flag" "Over There," "America the Beautiful," "God Bless America," and "This Land is Your Land"
Scott Sandage is a cultural historian, specializing in nineteenth-century America. He is the author of Born Losers: A History of Failure in America, forthcoming in January 2005 from Harvard University Press. Active as a public historian, he has been a consultant to the Smithsonian Institution, the National Archives, the National Park Service, an off-Broadway play, and film and radio documentaries. His study, “A Marble House Divided: The Lincoln Memorial, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Politics of Memory, 1939-1963” (Journal of American History, June 1993) won best article prizes from the Organization of American Historians and from the Eugene V. Debs Foundation. He is editing a one-volume abridgement of Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America for 2005 publication by HarperCollins, and he is co-editor of the “American History and Culture” book series for New York University Press.
Eric Davin: “The Great Depression & Demographic Change”
Eric Leif Davin teaches American labor and popular culture history at the University of Pittsburgh, as well as American survey courses from the Colonial period to the present. He has been honored by the Student Government for excellence in teaching and is the recipient of the Eugene V. Debs Foundation Literature Prize for "The Very Last Hurrah: The Defeat of the Labor Party Idea, 1934-1936." His interest in American popular culture led to his book, Pioneers of Wonder: Conversations With the Founders of Science Fiction as well as his forthcoming Partners in Wonder: Women and the Birth of Science Fiction, 1926-1960. A prize-winning fiction writer, he has also published many science fiction stories, as well as children's poetry. Other publications include "Blue Collar Democracy: Class War and Political Revolution in Western Pennsylvania, 1932-1937," "The Era of the Common Child: Egalitarian Death in Antebellum America," and "Petroglyps of Wupatki."
Field Trip: Andy Warhol Museum
Susan Donley: Teaching Strategies: Story Behind the Song
Pete DiNardo: “Beyond Words: Using Multiple Intelligences”
Scott Sandage: “Hard Times in 19th Century America”
Mariana Whitmer: “Teaching Technology Through Song”
Song Discussion: “Henry’s Made a Lady out of Lizzie” “Hello, Ma Baby” “Lindbergh: the Eagle of the USA,” I Get Around”
Mariana Whitmer is currently Project Coordinator at the Center for American Music at the University of Pittsburgh, responsible for initiatives related to developing use of the Stephen Foster Collection, bringing American music to scholars and educators. Mariana has consulted on Voices Across Time since early 1999, assisting in the selection of songs, completing the historical research of individual songs, and contributing to the essay and discussion materials. She also has worked with the Department of Education at the University of Pittsburgh in integrating Voices Across Time into the social studies curriculum. Mariana has presented Voices Across Time several times at conferences and seminars. Dedicated to the study of music as it relates to history, she is currently guest editor for a special music issue (July 2005) of the Magazine of History, a publication of the Organization of American Historians.
Susan Donley: Teaching Strategies: Graphic Organizers as a Tool for Listening and Understanding Song
Deane Root: “Reconfiguring the Cultural Landscape: Radio and Recordings”
Teaching Activity: Merchandising Music
Teaching Activity: Reflecting on the Hits: Billboard Charts and What They Disclose
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Week 3: Conflicts!
Field Trip: Fort Pitt Museum
Alan Irvine: “The French & Indian War”
Alan Irvine is both a professor of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh and a professional Storyteller. He also works with the Pennsylvania Humanities Council in various capacities. Tales of western Pennsylvania history are among his most popular storytelling programs. He also tells folktales, ghost stories, Shakespeare, and more. He has performed at museums and historical societies, schools and festivals throughout the region. “Blood on the Moon” will be released on CD this Fall. More information is available at www.alanirvine.com.
Mike Naragon: “The Civil War”
Maurine Greenwald: “The Social Impact of World War I”
Song discussion: “I Didn’t Raise My Boy to be a Soldier” and answer songs
Maurine Greenwald is Associate Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh. Her publications include, Women, War and Work: The Impact of World War I on Women Workers in the United States (Cornell University Press, 1990), “Working-Class Feminism and the Family Wage Ideal: The Seattle Debate on Married Women’s Right to Work, 1914–1920,” Journal of American History 76 (June 1989), and “Women and Class in Pittsburgh, 1850–1920” in City at the Point: Essays on the Social History of Pittsburgh, ed. Samuel P. Hays, University of Pittsburgh Press (1989). She received the Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award in 1994. Her current study, “Advertising, Feminism, and the Demographic Revolution in Women’s Lives, 1865–1995” concerns women and U.S. corporate power during a 30-year period of tumultuous change in American society—how women advance in corporations, influence corporate behavior, and fare as business entrepreneurs.
Maurine Greenwald: “The Social Impact of WWII”
Song discussion: “Rosie the Riveter” “A Slip of the Lip” “Any Bonds Today?”
Susan Donley: Reading a Photograph
Home Front: “Music of the Civil War” (live performance and song discussion)
Song Discussion: Music and Patriotism, Part 2: What is a national anthem? “Star Spangled Banner”, “Born in the USA” “Lift Every Voice and Sing”
Alexander Bloom: “The Cultural Impact of the Vietnam Experience”
Song discussion: “Feel Like I’m Fixin’ to Die Rag”
Alexander Bloom is Professor of History and American Studies at Wheaton College in Massachusetts. He is the author of Prodigal Sons: The New York Intellectuals and Their World (1986); co-editor of “Takin’ It to the Streets”: A Sixties Reader (1995, 2/e 2002); and editor of Long Time Gone: Sixties America: Then and Now (2001). He is currently working on a study of the way the Vietnam War experience has shaped American life.
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Week 4: Social Activism
Field Trip: The Heinz History Center
Richard Oestreicher: “Economic Growth, Anticommunism, Conformity and Cultural Rebellion in Fifties America: Rock 'n Roll and the Beats”
Song Discussion: “House Un-American Activity Blues Dream”, “Subterranean Homesick Blues”Richard Oestreicher is Associate Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh. His publications include “Urban Working-Class Political Behavior and Theories of American Electoral Politics, 1870–1940,” Journal of American History (1988), Solidarity and Fragmentation: Working People and Class Consciousness in Detroit 1875–1900 (Illinois, 1986). His current projects include Making America: Working-Class Formation and U.S. Political and Cultural Development, 1780–1860 and Class and American Politics, 1830–present.
Barbara Tischler: “Social Change in the 1960s”
Song Discussion: “The Times They Are A-Changin’”
Julian C. Madison, Jr.: “African-American activism -- The Civil Rights Movement”
Dr. Julian Madison is a professor of the African Diaspora at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven, Connecticut. His research interests include Blacks and American Law, the History of Black Canadians, Sex and Race in the New World, and Relations Between African Americans and Asians. Dr. Madison's book, "A Death and Life Matter," will be published in 2005. He is currently researching The Life and Times of Joel Augustus Rogers, the Godfather of Black History. He will be discussing the civil rights movement, specifically controversies, tactics, key Supreme Court decisions and some of the movement's main leaders, other than Martin Luther King, Jr.
Oscar Brand: “Songs of Activism” (live performance)
For further information visit: www.oscarbrand.com.
Charlie McCollester: “Pennsylvania Labor History”
Charlie McCollester is Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. His interest areas include, Comparative and International Labor Relations, Collective Bargaining, Negotiations, Alternative Work Organization, Labor and Community Based Economic Development, Workplace Safety and Health. His scholarly publications include: “Irish in the Steel Industry”. The Encyclopedia of the Irish in America (Notre Dame Press, 1999), “Pittsburgh’s IBEW Local 5: The Formation of a Century-Old Electrical Craft Union.” Pittsburgh History (Summer 1998), "Turtle Creek Fights Taylorism: The Westinghouse Strike of 1914" Labor's Heritage (Summer 1992), "Technological Change and Worker's Control" in The River Ran Red, ed. Dave Demarest, Charles McCollester, et.al. (University of Pittsburgh Press 1992), "Deindustrialization: A Panel Discussion", Pennsylvania History (Vol. 68, n.3 July 1991), "The Tri-State Conference on Steel - Ten years of a Labor/Community Alliance" in Building Bridges ed. Jeremy Brecher and Tim Costello (Monthly Review Press, 1990), "Steel Valley Authority: A Community Plan to Save Pittsburgh's Steel Industry", with Stout, Erikson, Lynd, Hornack, et al. (Private Printing Pittsburgh, 1984).
Anne Feeney: Performance & Discussion
Anne Feeney is the granddaughter of a United Mineworkers organizer who also used music as an organizing tool during the Great Steel Strike of 1919. She is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh as well as Pitt Law School. Anne is familiar to many of us from her 35 years of outspoken activism on labor, peace, feminist and other social issues. She served as the first and only woman ever elected president of the Pittsburgh Musicians’ Union from 1997-98. Now Anne is on the road more than 200 days a year, comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable. Her song “War on the Workers,” is the theme of the “Justice at Walmart” campaign and was featured on Bill Moyers’ NOW. Her anthem, “Have You Been to Jail for Justice?” is sung by activists everywhere including Peter, Paul and Mary.
Maurine Greenwald Women's Suffrage Movement
Songs Discussion: Songs of the Suffragists, “The New America,” “Going to the Polls,” “Rights of a Woman,” “I am Woman,” “Respect”
Hip Hop Music in the Classroom: discussion led by participants
Susan Donley: Controversial Songs in the Classroom
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Week 5: Music and Identity
Victor Greene “The Dilemma of American Immigration: National Treasure or National Threat?”
Song Discussion: Songs of the Immigrants, “Thousands Are Sailing to Amerikay” “America” (from West Side Story), “The Argentines, The Portuguese and the Greeks”
Victor Greene is Emeritus Professor of History, at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He has published 5 books and several articles on American immigration, ethnicity, labor, and popular culture. His most recent work is A Singing Ambivalence: American Immigrants Between Old World and New, 1830-1930 (Kent State University Press, 2004). In his 40-year career, he has received numerous awards, as President of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society, a NEH Senior Fellowship, and several Fulbright and other travel grants lecturing in Germany, the United Kingdom, Eastern Europe and China. His current research concerns American ethnicity and the arts.
Field Trip: Rivers of Steel Tour of Pittsburgh Neighborhoods
Ken Emerson “Notes About Teaching History, Music and Race”
Song Discussion: John Prine's recording of "My Old Kentucky Home" Louis Armstrong and the Mills Brothers' recording of "Old Folks at Home," Francis Johnson's "La Sonnambula Quadrille Number Two" and Ray Charles's "Swanee River Rock."
Ken Emerson, a former articles editor of The New York Times Magazine and op-ed editor of New York Newsday, has written about popular music for thirty years. His most recent publication is Doo-Dah! Stephen Foster and the Rise of American Popular Culture (Simon and SChuster, 1997). He current project is a study of the Brill Building, located at 1619 and 1650 Broadway in Manhattan, where a group of immensely talented, socially conscious young Jewish songwriters (most of them from Brooklyn), who were obsessed with Latin rhythms, created their best work for black artists. This group included Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller, Burt Bacharach and the musically precocious Carol King, years before the mega-selling Tapestry album.
Joseph Horowitz: “Dvorak in America”
Joseph Horowitz is an artistic consultant, teacher, and author. He is one of the most prominent and widely published writers on topics in American music. As an orchestral administrator and advisor, he has been a pioneering force in the development of thematic programming and new concert formats. His six books offer a detailed history and analysis of American symphonic culture, its achievements, challenges, and prospects for the future.
Ken Emerson: “Havanagila Boogie”
Song Discussion: The Drifters' "Sweets for My Sweet," Tito Puente's "El Cayuco," Ben E. King's "Spanish Harlem," the Crystals, "Uptown" and Jay and the Americans' "Only in America"
Susan Key: “Rise of Hispanic Performers”
Susan Key is a musicologist specializing in American music. She has taught at the University of Maryland, the College of William and Mary, and Stanford University; currently she is a member of the San Francisco Symphony's Artistic Planning Department.
Susan Key “Collaborative Teaching Strategies”
Kay Atman “Curriculum Development”