Jazz

Famous Things

Int
Grades 6–12

Born around the year 1895 in New Orleans, this distinct style of music brought together the elements of ragtime, marching band music, and the blues.

This lesson mentions slavery.

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Focus

topic-based
academic
4-skills
music
culture
US
New Orleans
interpretive

Vocabulary

slave
labor
plantation
spiritual
settler
tradition
funeral
melody
improvise
fashionable
popularity
contribution
A spinning paper plane
A spinning paper plane