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DocuSign Envelope ID:3A2943C2-EE76-446E-9116-3566395E1533 <br /> a. What does it mean to be Blue? <br /> b. Historical significance of The Blues <br /> c. Write our own"Blues"with the students, perform with audience participation <br /> d. Emphasize storytelling <br /> Jazz - Improvisation <br /> a. Historical trajectory American music, from Blues to Jazz(New Orleans, etc) <br /> b. The Beast performs"When the Saints go Marching in", explaining <br /> relationship to New Orleans, and showcasing soloists. <br /> c. Emphasize storytelling and improvisation <br /> Hip-Hop --Call and Response <br /> a. Historical overview, including the four elements of Hip-Hop culture <br /> b. The Beast performs Sugar Hill Gang's"Rapper's Delight", and showcases <br /> storytelling, improvisation and call and response. <br /> c. Lyric/music analysis, socio-political impact <br /> The Beast—Genre-Bending <br /> a. Overview: exploring the relationships between American music genres, from <br /> Spirituals to Hip-Hop,and investigating how each style has affected and <br /> influenced generations of youth in America. <br /> b. Live performance, exploring of musical continuities across genres and <br /> generations,as interpreted by the repertoire of The Beast. <br /> Definitions: <br /> Sankofa-a West African philosophy,encouraging one to look back to the past in order <br /> to move forward. The literal translation for Sankofa is,"go back and fetch it". <br /> Griot/tali - a storyteller,historian and musician,who maintains a tradition of oral <br /> history in parts of West Africa. <br /> Coded Language—the hidden,double meaning behind words and lyrics,only <br /> understood by people within a certain group. <br /> Blue—the feeling of being melancholy or sad. <br /> Improvisation—to create or perform spontaneously or without preparation <br /> Soloist—in a jazz ensemble, the soloist is the primary person improvising,usually over a <br /> predetermined sequence of chord changes. <br /> Genre-bending--genre bending is the art of fusing different musical styles together. <br />