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  • Unit Introduction
  • Lesson 1: General Characteristics of African American Music
  • Lesson 2: General Characteristics of African American Music Continued
  • Lesson 3: Music, Rhythm, and Dance
  • Lesson 4: Plantation Songs
  • Unit Introduction
  • Lesson 5: Folk Spirituals
  • Lesson 6: Source Materials
  • Lesson 7: Precursor to Blues
  • Unit Introduction
  • Lesson 8: Concertized Spirituals
  • Lesson 9: Blues
  • Lesson 10: Ragtime and Brass Bands
  • Lesson 11: African American Contributions to Classical Traditions
  • Unit Introduction
  • Lesson 12: Early Gospel
  • Lesson 13: 40 Acres and the Blues
  • Lesson 14: New Orleans Jazz
  • Lesson 15: Big Bands
  • Unit Introduction
  • Lesson 16: Freedom Songs
  • Lesson 17: Golden Age of Gospel
  • Lesson 18: Black Music and the Media
  • Lesson 19: Rhythm and Blues
  • Lesson 20: Soul Music
  • Lesson 21: Jazz (Post WWII)
  • Unit Introduction
  • Lesson 22: Contemporary Gospel
  • Lesson 23: Dance Styles
  • Lesson 24: Hip Hop
  • Lesson 25: Urban Contemporary
  • Lesson 26: Jazz (Post Civil Rights Act)
  • Unit Introduction
  • Lesson 27: Sacred Traditions of the New Millennium
  • Lesson 28: Out of the Past

page link iconUnit 1: Lesson 1.02 - OnAfrican American Music: Key Characteristics of West and Central African Music

page link iconUnit 2: Lesson 7.07 - OnAfrican American Music: Railroad Work Songs (Continued)

page link iconUnit 3 Lesson 11.15 - OnAfrican American Music: Spiritual Art Songs: Harry Thacker Burleigh (Continued)

page link iconUnit 4 Lesson 15.04 - OnAfrican American Music: Swing (Continued)

page link iconUnit 5 Lesson 16.11 - OnAfrican American Music: Protest Songs

page link iconUnit 6 Lesson 22.12 - OnAfrican American Music: History and Key Performers of Urban Contemporary Gospel: The 1980s and 1990s (Continued)

page link iconUnit 7 Lesson 27.11 - OnAfrican American Music: Black Musical Influences on Christian Rap 1

page link iconUnit 1: African American Roots

page link iconUnit 2: The American Revolution - Emancipation

page link iconUnit 3: Post-Slavery America

page link iconUnit 4: Early 20th Century

page link iconUnit 5: WWII - Civil Rights Movement

page link iconUnit 6: Post-Civil Rights - New Millennium

page link iconUnit 7: New Millennium - Present