We Rock! Music Lab

Quarry

ISBN 10 : 1592539211 ISBN 13 : 9781592539215

Editeur : Quarry Books, 2014

Synopsis

We Rock! A Fun Family Listening Guide for Exploring Rock Music History is a refreshing source of ideas for enjoying popular music with children, and offers music listening activities for families to do together. This guide features 52 music exercises set into weekly lessons, beginning with Rock and Roll basics, moving through soul and punk, and then dance and new wave. The labs can be used as singular projects or to build up to a year of hands-on musical experiences, and the lessons in this book are open-ended to be explored over and over–with different results each time.

 

 

Readers will be able to access companion Spotify playlists that tie in to all the listening experiences in the book.

 

 

Written by Jason Hanley, director of education at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, this book will introduce families to great songs in rock history, offer insights and stories on the artists, the social and historical influences at play, and offer fun related activities. Detailed listening guides help music fan understand song structure, lyrics, and instrumentation. Related listening lists introduce readers to other exciting artists in similar genres. 

 

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Jason Hanley has been the Director of Education at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum for the last eight years.  He holds a Ph.D. in Musicology with a sub-emphasis in Composition from Stony Brook University, where he completed his dissertation entitled “Metal Machine Music: Technology, Noise, and Modernism in Industrial Music 1975-1996.” In his position at the Rock Hall Jason teaches students of all ages in a wide variety of educational programs and produces the Museum’s public programs.  Over the last eight years he has conducted oral histories and interviews with a wide variety of musicians, producers, and record industry professionals including Les Paul, Little Anthony and the Imperials, Peter Hook (of Joy Division/New Order), Darryl “DMC” McDaniels, DJ Spinderella, Alan Parsons, Dennis Edwards, Al Bell, Bill Kreutzmann, Tommy James, Spooner Oldham, and the band Asia.

He has taught courses in music history, electronic music, and popular music studies at Hofstra University, Stony Brook University, Cleveland State University, and Case Western Reserve University.  He has delivered presentations at meetings of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, Society for Ethnomusicology, American Musicological Society, Americana Music Association, Feminist Theory and Music, Teaching Music History Day and numerous other conferences.  Jason has published articles in books and journals on the topics of popular music, film music and music technology, and in 2009 he was a guest editor for a special issue on pedagogy for the Journal of Popular Music Studies where he currently serves as an editorial board member.  Active in the music industry since 1988, he has played on, composed for, and produced numerous recordings and has performed live with many bands.  

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Quarry Books
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1592539211
• ISBN 13: 9781592539215
• Reliure: Carton flexible
• Nombre de pages: 152
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible