Popular Records as Oral Evidence: Creating an Audio Time Line to Examine American History, 1955-1987.

Cooper, B. Lee

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ERIC Number: EJ386371

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Publication Date: 1989

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Popular Records as Oral Evidence: Creating an Audio Time Line to Examine American History, 1955-1987.

Cooper, B. Lee

Social Education, v53 n1 p34-40 Jan 1989

Illustrates a method for demonstrating historical chronology using popular songs that comment on a variety of social, political, and economic concerns. Provides an audio time line which uses U.S. recordings from 1955 to 1987 as musical time markers, highlighting such issues as racial discrimination, urban decay, political chicanery and women's rights. (LS)

Descriptors: Audiodisks, Class Activities, Current Events, Economic Change, Instructional Innovation, Music, Political Science, Popular Culture, Secondary Education, Social History, Social Studies, United States History

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Classroom - Teacher

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Language: English

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