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History of Hip Hop Unit, the 5th and 6th grade classes study the
history of Hip Hop and perform various selections on pitched and
non pitched percussion. Students study and perform the music of
four rap groups/artists, one for each decade in the 70's, 80's,
90's, and 00's.
Hip Hop
Vocabulary
1970s: "Rapper's Delight" by the
Sugar Hill Gang.
The
Start of Rap and the Sugar Hill Gang
Rapper's
Delight Trivia
Rapper's
Delight Lyrics
1980s: "Party For Your Right To Fight" by Public
Enemy
Additional topics discussed is the Civil Rights movement,
Malcom X, Martin Luther King, and J. Edgar Hoover.
Public
Enemy Past and Present
Party
For Your Right To Fight Lyrics
1990s: TBA
2000s: TBA
National Standards:
1. Singing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
2. Performing on instruments, alone and with others, a varied
repertoire of music.
4. Composing and arranging music within specified guidelines.
6. Listening to, analyzing, and describing music.
7. Evaluating music and music performances.
8. Understanding relationships between music, the other arts,
and disciplines outside the arts.
9. Understanding music in relation to history and culture.
Iowa Standards: same as national standards in
addtion to:
3. Using technology as a tool for learning and self-expression.
ICCSD Benchmarks:
Rhythm:
* Review previously experienced rhythms
using note values of whole, half, quarter.
* Ostinato accompaniment using sixteenth
note figures.
* Simple meters (2/4, 4/4).
Form:
* AB
Harmony:
* I, V
Purpose:
1. To introduce the devolopment of a style of music in the pop
culture.
2. To introduce significant artists that made significant contributions
to the Hip Hop style.
3. To perform introduced songs in an Orff style approach by deriving
rhtyhms from the lyrics to create pitched and non pitched accompaniment.
Objectives:
* Students will learn skills and concepts listed above under ICCSD
Benchmarks.
* Students will learn about the development of Hip Hop including
significant artists and what significant contributions they made
that made revolutionary changes in the music that may include
musical contributions, image, and the topics of lyrics.
*Students will demonstrate proper technique on instruments used.
*Students will perform songs discussed.
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