Popular Music
An Untapped Resource for Teaching Contemporary Black History
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4048064 |
|---|---|
| Authors | B Lee Cooper (0000-0001-5214-7723, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1979 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 20 |
| Publication date | 1979-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Negro Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-2984 • E-ISSN: 2167-6437 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2294613 |
| OpenAlex | W2040926295 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 3 |
author James Baldwin has observed, People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.' This perceptive comment invites teachers to explore the experiences of their students as the content of classroom instruction. Unfortunately, most history instructors have ignored this approach. This omission is particularly lamentable in regard to black students. The ability of a teacher to stimulate reflection by young blacks on issues of historical significance is clearly dependent upon his or her skill in identifying the universal concerns of the Afro-American community. One instructional resource that might help a history instructor accomplish this goal is contemporary music. Traditionally, however, the lyrics of black singers are rarely introduced in academic classrooms. One critic has capsuled the shortsightedness of this instructional omission by noting, Black music has been the vanguard reflection of black feeling and the continuous repository of black consciousness.2 His words warrant serious consideration by history teachers
Aesthetics · Art · Black history · Black music · Resource (disambiguation) · Sociology · Computer Science · Gender Studies · History · Race, History, and American Society
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 1988 - 2021 (34) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |