Category Archives: African American History

Spring Break Music Travel

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Family vacations and day trips are great opportunities to explore each other’s interests. For musical families or families with anybody who is musical this can mean adding an additional adventure to an already planned trip. That’s what we did on our most recent trip. Although not everyone in my family is musical we all enjoyed it. We didn’t have to take a huge chunk of time out of our vacation to do it either. It was just another memory making moment in time. So, families, make the most of this Spring Break and visit a music related display, concert, or anything else musical you can think of!!! You never know what it could lead to.

Before There Was Mozart

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Before There Was Mozart

Here is another great read about music in Black History that I found at my recent trip to the library.

This literary offering by Husband and wife team, Lesa Cline-Ransome and James E. Ransome tells the interesting story of Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint-George who was the son of a slave and Slave Owner on an island in the West Indies. He became a great musician who played for the King and Queen of France and inspired Mozart himself with his beautiful music.

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Black History: Music Picture Books

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Books On Songs and  Singing:

What a Wonderful World

By: George David Weiss & Bob Thiele

Illustrated by: Ashley Bryan

Age Level: 3-6

Reading Level: Beginning Reader

This book  can be used while listening to Louis Armstrong’s famous recording of the timeless song. Children and adults will enjoy the colorful pictures.

Hush Songs by Joyce Carol Thomas (Aug 2, 2000)

A collection of African American Lullabies including music notation, pictures, and brief descriptions of many of the songs’ origin and uses.

All Night, All Day: A Child’s First Book of African American Spirituals

By: Ashley Bryan

Age Level: 3-6

Reading Level: Beginning Reader

When Marian Sang: The True Recital Of Marian Anderson, The Voice Of A Century 

by: Pam Munoz Ryan

Age Level: 6 and up

Books On Piano and Pianists:

Piano Starts Here: The Young Art Tatum 

by: Robert Parker

Grades 2-4

The Little Piano Girl: The Story of Mary Lou Williams, Jazz Legend by Ann Ingalls, Maryann Macdonald and Giselle Potter

DUKE ELLINGTON, The Piano Prince and His Orchestra by Andrea Davis Pinkney (1999)
Video Picture Books:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgKi95r_FFk&t=1m58s

http://youtu.be/BMJbMKII8iM