U.S. & CANADA HOWDY!
Greetings friends...we are in for a treat. This season we travel to the United States and Canada. For a good number of us this is a journey inward – to our home regions, our states, our cities and streets – literally, to our own back yards.
As I hope you'd expect from All Around This World, we blast through the notion that American music is only “one thing” and take a multilingual, multicultural approach. In fact, in class this season we're going to leap week to week from genre to genre, paying particular attention to the international roots of each. Every American music genre — especially the most “American” such as Jazz, hip hop and blues — only exists because of centuries (millennia!) of music from every part of the world. (So much of American culture is both completely itself and the sum of everything else.)
This season we sing in Native American languages, Spanish, French,... We note that Salsa is a Latin music that was born in the US, between Puerto Rico and New York, We approach disco as a genre built on international funk. We appreciate Conjunto and Hawaiin musics as being as American as country fiddlin' and the Delta blues. So get ready, y’all, for a multicultural, multilingial, mutlinational, incredibly American good time.
EXPLORE THE U.S. AND CANADA WITH…
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DANCES, HOLIDAYS AND FUN!
THE U.S. AND CANADA
ALL AROUND THIS WORLD’S SONGS AND LESSONS
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