This season in our online classes for kids we’ll be traveling to the United States and Canada. For many of us, including yours truly, this will be a journey inward – to our home regions, our states, our cities and streets – literally, to our own back yards.
As I hope you’d expect from All Around This World, we’re going to blast through the notion that American music is only “one thing” and take a multilingual, multicultural approach. Every American music genre, especially the most “American” such as Jazz, hip hop and blues, stand on the shoulders of music from every part of the globe. This season we’re going to sing in Native American languages, Spanish, French,… We’ll note that Salsa is a Latin music that was born in the US, between Puerto Rico and New York, We’ll approach disco as a genre built on international funk. We’ll appreciate Conjunto and Hawaiin musics as being as American as country fiddlin’ and the Delta blues.
I’m so glad you’ve chosen to join me on this journey. Let’s go.
