People
This famous rock star got his start as a 10-year old when his Momma bought him a guitar.
Elvis Presley
This famous historical site is in Virginia. It is home to 18th Century American buildings, churches and more, and still has large tourism for the area sharing with those who visit what Colonial America was like.
Colonial Williamsburg
This music has many different styles, but some may include: New Orleans, Chicago, Swing, etc.
Jazz
What does art do?
It expresses the things that are most important to people in any particular time and place.
This is a famous marching band composer.
John Philip Sousa
Hero or Reckless Train Conductor
Casey Jones
This Basilica is a great Neoclassical architect project by Benjamin Henry Latrobe who also worked on the US Capitol building.
The Baltimore Basilica
This popular movement sold songbooks in a notation system called ....?
Shape-note, often sung in Baptist Church in the mid-1800s.
What would you call the "landscape" that a composer creates?
Soundscape
This famous carousel is worth millions of dollars and is nearly extinct
The Dentzel Carousel
This famous poet wrote many poems during the early 1800s - 1860s. One such famous poem recited in the video series was entitled "Evangeline" and takes place in the Cajun territory with the Acadians.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
This U.S. Military Academy is near the Hudson River in New York.
West Point
This type of music was instrumental in sending signals to troops across large areas, often wrought with battle sounds.
Military Music - trumpet -
This epic, life-size painting of ???? Crossing the Delaware was painted by a German American immigrant - Emmanuel Leutze
George Washington
The slavery in the south of America was not good. But from that enslavement came several types of art. Can you name some?
Minstrelsy, Congo Square (dancing and jazz music)
This 19th century composer was known as the "Father of Church Hymns" and provided many traditional hymns sung still today.
Lowell Mason
This city in Oklahoma is home to what Native American tribe that holds the record for Fancy Dance.
Ponca City, Ponca Tribe
This type of music was a blend of Acadian and French.
Cajun music
This theatre is famous in New York City and actually was the place of Bob Hope's long career.
The Vaudeville Theatre
Who invented the gramophone?
Emile Berliner
Who was "The Swedish Nightingale"? She toured with P.T. Barnum's circus around 1850.
Jenny Lind
This is the site in Washington D.C. where Marian Anderson became the most well-known woman of color who sang "God Bless America" in front of 75,000 people.
Lincoln Memorial
Popular in the 1950s and 1960s - many young men and women sang and danced to this style of music.
Rock 'n Roll
Why is art important to our legacy?
It connects us to songs sung in the past, to arts appreciated and to experience the emotions while reciting the same poems of years past.
Three major themes for this DVD course
Regionalism, Legacy, Preservation