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Create + Connect: Famous Faces
Classroom Connections
Ron WalcottApril 24, 2012
TyrishaPeterson
Performing Arts in ArtA Curriculum for K-12 Teachers
The Art and Accessibility of Music
DAY ONE
Songs by Billie Holiday
The Blues are Brewin’http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6RwSsHSIfs&feature=related
Fine and Mellow (from Lady Sings the Blues)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtqjW2uhBT4
My Manhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQlehVpcAes&feature=related
Strange Fruithttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4ZyuULy9zs
LOOKat the photograph carefully.
Share out everything that youSEE.
Her clothing?
Her hairstyle?
The microphone?
Her facial expression?
The background?
What else?
Lisette Model
Commercial photographer
Worked for Harper's Bazaar
magazine
In Class Writing Assignment
Write a one-page article for Harper's Bazaar as if you are Lisette Model interviewing Billie Holiday.
Article must reflect research from three reliable resources.
Get ideas about how to write the structure and content of the article by looking at articles about your favorite musicians.
DAY TWO
Students responded to the following question:
When you wrote your article, what did you learn about Billie Holiday?
Jim Crow was missing from students’ responses.
The following information was provided:
One of the first black singers to be featured with a white orchestra. (Artie Shaw, 1938)
She performed during the time of Jim Crow.
She sang in clubs that refused admission to a black audience.
She was cheered by white audiences, but had to exit by the back door.
How would you feel if you
performed in front of an audience
that did not allow people of your
own race to attend?
Because students knew little about the Jim Crow laws, the following assignment was added.
Create a photo essay in six images that explains “Jim Crow.”
Google > Images > “Jim Crow”
Access
Access to music has been limited throughout time. To give context, several images were discussed.
What problems with access exist today?
Dream Act
Students share all that they can see that describes the technical excellence of this work.
Where was Model when she took the photo?
Why did she take this point of view?
How do lines create movement?
What qualities of Holiday did she capture?
Rule of thirds?
The grid?
DAY THREE
Students were asked to shoot 10 photographs of a person or people while performing music.
Students were asked to capture the emotion displayed by the musician(s).
When musicians play, they do not always cooperate with the photographer.
Try to wait for the right moment!
At the beginning of a video clip of a 17-year-old cellist, Stephan looks down.
You have to wait about 2 minutes until he looks up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lh28ZAGkahk
Students selected their best shot out of the 10 photographs they took. They edited the image, gave the photograph a title, and provided general information about it.
Self-Assessment
Students assessed their own photographs in terms of technical achievements.
Students wrote one paragraph about:
• Point of view• Movement• Rule of thirds• The grid• Expressiveness• Intentions
CLASS EXHIBIT
xx by Avery
[Insert student work here]
xx by xx
[Insert student work here]
xx by xx
Access to the class exhibit was
different, depending on the color of
each student’s eyes.