Broken off from editing for a while to produce some new materials of my own...
This time they are for the online updates that accompany the forthcoming Harper Collins KS3 Geography series that I have been involved in producing teacher materials and other work for (athough my name doesn't seem to appear in the details of the books that are available to pre-order on Amazon, which is a pity...)
Images from my Glastonbury Flickr set
The resources are on Geography and Music.
I know about the MUSIC FESTIVAL resources on the GTT website already, which use the festival as a context for teaching a range of geographical skills, including mapwork and decision making.
I'm looking for a little direction here....
If you have any ideas for what could go into a unit on GEOGRAPHY and MUSIC, please add comments below, or e-mail/tweet me...
So far I have:
The resources are on Geography and Music.
I know about the MUSIC FESTIVAL resources on the GTT website already, which use the festival as a context for teaching a range of geographical skills, including mapwork and decision making.
I'm looking for a little direction here....
So far I have:
- Music linked to places / countries / cities e.g. Liverpool / Manchester
- Music technology - iPod manufacture and downloads
- Globalisation of acts such as Lady Gaga and the size of the global music industry
- Song lyrics
- Sustainability of major music festivals
Comments
Maybe also looking at certain areas of cities for certain types of music - what you'd find in Hoxton would be very different from Walthamstow or Wembley.
World music could be interesting too - how does it travel from one place to another, how does that migrate into more popular music as it reaches a new audience (thinking of the progression of R&B here). I heard someone speaking about the use of 'talking drums' in Africa to transmit messages without the colonisers having a clue what was happening too - would be fascinating to know more about!
The idea of urban music also occurred to me.
Musical developments will also be involved.
I'll let you know when the resource is complete :)
- pirate radio didn't even cover the whole of England;
- The Beatles hysteria at airports in an era when flights were beyond the experience of ordinary mortals;
- a YouTube film clip of Hendrix (Preston Poly, I think)with a small crowd standing with the house lights up (imagine!) and no velvet loons or purple silk in sight (cf today's concert clones)
- bands came to your venue, not you travelling miles to see bands, so people saw acts they had never heard of (plus multiple support acts gave first exposure to new bands)
As for me, I now prefer the instant access of virtually any music of my choice from the comfort of my own home!
I'm a big fan of using colleagues as a resource here. Would be interest to ask what the first concert the staff had seen and when...
I've got an old concert tickets set on my Flickr
I like the idea of concert clones - wonder when the merchandising that we see now started to happen.
There's plenty of scope here. I'm going to do a short resource first for the Collins project, then develop it further...