help me with my class?

and thanks for that amazing highwomen live version of the chain, that's amazing!

Chuck Berry rocks the Count Basie Orchestra, Anita O'Day is nonchalant badass etc

I like this Talking Heads Rome show - less happening visually than Stop Making Sense, but lots of Adrian Belew:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOirHv4wOv4

here is the list i gave to my students -- please keep in mind it was made for them, not you! it's not exhaustive. but it will provide many hours of quality musical entertainment. i might even watch the Bieber one if i get bored enough ---> shorturl.at/moNRZ

i am also going to add things as i stumble on them + my pitiful "other resources" tab needs help. didn't want to drown my students in choices though. it's a small menu but everything is good!

Oh shit wattstax is on youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdAkEwq0Af8

oh lol you already have it on there

You don't have the TAMI show tho:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OODJDdIbkF4

TAMI Show comes and goes from youtube -- I'll add it if it's the complete thing. the old youtube was super high quality too because of that weird format they used to shoot it. last time I looked for it, it was gone but one semester we watched it in class and my students LOVED the lesley gore part

they didn't know there was an original version of "you don't own me" and they clapped!

necessary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFgzzWT3zX4

Ok here's a question -- what are some good examples of "listening guides" or "how to get into ______"/an introduction to ________ guides?

With this new online learning situation I am having to get extra creative with the final project this time. We can't do the fun things I've done in the past (put on a show, make a zine) -- I realize they COULD make a zine but it would lose a huge part of the fun. I thought maybe designing listening guides might be kind of fun? Esp for music that isn't in English, it might be fun to have an English speaker's guide to, say, bachata.

you could do worse than the rough guide series?
https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/a-rough-guide-to-the-rough-guides/Content?oid=897715
https://www.librarything.com/series/Rough+Guide+Music+Guides

useful, thank you!!

bandcamp daily does a lot of stories like this under its lists header:

The Manic, Joyous Sound of Brazil’s Funk Carioca
https://daily.bandcamp.com/lists/the-manic-joyous-sound-of-brazils-funk-carioca

A Guide to African Country Music
https://daily.bandcamp.com/lists/african-country-music-list

The Fresh, Inventive Sounds of Contemporary Chinese Post-Punk
https://daily.bandcamp.com/lists/chinese-post-punk-list

bump! I am going to be teaching two things next week (one week only, volunteer gig): 1) 5 one-hour drum lessons via zoom 2) workshop about concert films (based on the list I put together last spring when covid hit)

i am bumping this thread just to alert that i may need some help thinking of good songs to practice for xyz task and I was hoping to harness the power of ilx (and readers of this thread) to answer those questions more precisely/better than google can.

when i have a question, i will post and if anyone feels like answering/is able to answer, great! this thread is like my phone-a-friend <3

classes start monday

Hijacking this thread to say that if anyone has any suggestions for French/Francophone pop songs I can play in a middle school classroom - not just to read/translate lyrics, but also just to get kids moving around the room - please send them my way! I am woefully ignorant about Francophone music and want to have a lot of fun and diverse music in my classroom.

"Ça plane pour moi"!

(I actually just posted on another thread that our French teacher played us "Je t'aime... moi non plus"; that was in high school, though, and probably on the edge even for that age group.)

Already played "Ça plane pour moi!" So far my students have heard a bunch of Edith Piaf and "Ça plane pour moi" and not much else.

Though I'll probably use it again because when they're doing a stand/pair/share and I play music to signal that it's time to move, they're only hearing little snippets of the song.

Quelqu'un m'a dit - Carla Bruni

I would play them this video to start
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwi0Fv17Vno

Or maybe build up to it, actually. It would be like starting an intro to rock n roll with Elvis.

https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivalité_entre_Antoine_et_Johnny_Hallyday

If they're at a beginner level, there's always Foux du Fafa by Flight of the Conchords - kids love that one.

France Gall - Poupée de cire, poupée de son

Very fun, Eurovision winner, and I don't think it suffers from the extreme sauciness of other Gainsbourg-penned songs (I could be wrong though).

"On dira ouf" or "Clash dans le Tempo" are favorites off Constance Amiot's _Fairytale_. The former's chorus is a fun burst of rapid French.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfXO7g5_pOo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSbUJ4yi-vI

^ played that a bunch for my kids when they were little

As an Autour de Lucie stan, would say pretty much anything of theirs, though _Immobile_ is the album I'd take to the desert island. "Sur Tes Pas" has a bunch of hooks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeI1I2eidHk

leaving out songs that talk about sex and/or death (that's a lot of them!) and/or too grown up (i.e. boring), first things I thought of:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ohX4ii4iow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W268gjCZHrs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aIgGbO8rQ0

("Banana Split" even catchier but inevitably is about sex)

If sex and death are off limits, how about drugs?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_mOdSuKjcE

Seems like it would be a fun one to translate

If you wanna freak your pupils out a little?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOfdJ8ZcLJc

Ha, I was thinking about suggesting Evariste's integral calculus track but thought I probably shouldn't.

"laisse tomber les filles" is not too adult, and is also the greatest pop song ever, so...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWRCJhsz5t4

<3 <3 Evariste

not so hip but also not from 30 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjLuTtUv0Ns

I guess this one is kind of about death

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiKj0Z_Xnjc

Magic System have lots of fun songs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsVJ8ie2sfs

This is all great, thank you all so much and please keep them coming!

Even if I don't teach my music class anymore, I can still include musical topics as sample research topics for us to use for in-class practice. Today, among two other nonmusical topics, I presented my first year (""traditional"") college students with the question of (basically, not in these exact words) "what was going on in 2012 to produce a Billboard Hot 100 that looks like this[displays list of songs]??"

They loved it! They kept going down the list and being shocked over and over like "and this one?" etc until I saw them looking up other lists of music from 2012 and continuing to be shocked that 1) it was 10 years ago and 2) they still liked a large proportion of the songs. Wednesday they will present me with their theories. Fun topic I've been thinking about and finally implemented today.

My observations:
they love CRJ, knew she had a new album out, a couple were legit fans
"Someone That I Used to Know" was so beloved by one of them that she had it downloaded to her phone for anytime listening
it was enjoyable to see the passage of time sink in as they realized how different the world seems than it did in 2012
overall good topic, would float again maybe with tweaks as time passes (as it does)