Exploring the Blues (book/CD)

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Publisher: Cherry Lane Music
Tom Anderson - Exploring the Blues (Teaxher's Handbook)
Series: ExpressiveArts
Composers: Tom Anderson, Bradley Shank
Code No. HL 02500363

Here is a valuable all-in-one resource that will help you introduce your students to this great American art form.
Each topic includes a reproducible student article, reproducible activity pages (including listening maps, worksheets and other enrichment ideas), and a detailed National Standards-based lesson plan.
All musical examples are included on the enclosed CD.

Topics include:

• 1.  Birth of the Blues (W.C. Handy)
• 2.  Early Blues Guitarists (Charlie Patton, Robert Johnson and others)
• 3.  Women and the Blues
• 4.  Now and Then (“Ma” Rainey, Dinah Washington, Aretha Franklin and others)
• 5.  The Blues Begin to Rock (Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Eric Clapton and others)
• 6.  Blues Across America
• 7.  A special section on blues greats: Bessie Smith, John Lee Hooker and B.B. King