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ERIC Number: EJ341930
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1986
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An Approach to Historical Method in the Secondary Classroom: Popular Music as Documents--A Contemporary View of America.
Chilcoat, George W.
The Social Studies Teacher, v8 n1 p1,4,5 Sep-Oct 1986
Examines popular music as a historical resource and classroom teaching tool to help students better understand and learn about social diversities that affected the United States. Five subthemes with 77 songs are cited: (1) fun; (2) music; (3) traditional/patriotic; (4) patriotic and pro-American; and (5) social statements. A five-step student group activity is detailed. (TRS)
Descriptors: Cultural Education, Culture, Music, Popular Culture, Secondary Education, Social Change, Social History, Social Studies, United States History
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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