How music carries protest, memory and culture

Music is how movements speak and how cultures carry what they know: protest songs, the folk revival in 1960s Greenwich Village, Native American music that carries knowledge, and the technology that changed how music is made.

How Native American music carries cultural knowledge

Music in Native American culture is created, used, and performed by Indigenous peoples across North America, and Gertrude Bonnin collaborated with William Hanson to create the opera Sun Dance in 1913. The lessons answer how music carries cultural knowledge and helps people understand history, beliefs, and ways of life. They consider how music connects learning, community values, and cultural practices.

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History of music technology: inventions and effects

The history of music technology is a timeline of major dates in electric music technology inventions from the 1800s to the early 1900s and electronic and digital music technologies from 1874 to the 2010s. In 1874, Elisha Gray created the Musical Telegraph; in 1877, David Edward Hughes first invented the microphone.

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How music and social movements express protest

Music and social movements describes music connected to social movements, as jazz experimentation was tied to movements including Civil Rights and Black Power in the '60s and '70s, while punk rock has been associated since the late 1970s with left-wing or anti-establishment ideologies and bands have used political lyrics attacking sources of social problems.

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The folk music revival in 1960s Greenwich Village scene

The folk music revival in 1960s Greenwich Village included Lead Belly's recordings of "Cotton Fields" and "Goodnight, Irene," and folk albums released by Odetta.

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