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Can you help me formulate or point me to a list of important 20th Century songs/artists? I know that some of it is just personal preferences, but I'd like some help in coming up with a list of songs/artists that are too important not to introduce to our children. Maybe by genre?
Some people that are rolling on the top of my head are:
Patsy Cline
Elvis
Buddy Holly
Nat King Cole
Willie Nelson
Johnny Cash
Beach Boys
Beatles
Peter, Paul and Mary
Mamas and Papas
Plus tons more! There's so many!
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Oh, great idea! My boys want nothing to do with classical music. I try it a different way every year and I get protested! Perhaps more modern music is the way to go until the are ready to appreciate classical music.
Will be watching. I can't think of anyone else to add at the moment . . . . . .
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Goodness, Lara! I think you would have to break it down by genre. Off the top of my head,
Gershwin
Rogers & Hammerstein
Dolly Parton ("Coat of Many Colors" always makes me cry!!!)
John Denver
Tom T. Hall
Aaron Neville
Roy Orbison
Ronny Milsap
The Platters
B.B. King
Chet Atkins...
Can you tell I love music? I could go on all day!!!
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Cassie, Gershwin is great, because his music is instrumental, but so much fun!!! My ds loved An American in Paris.
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Ok, dh just added:
Frank Sinatra
Dean Martin
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Harry Connick Jr
Bing Crosby.
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Hmm, this sounds more like pop music than looking at the whole of 20th century music.
Ragtime music, turn of the century (Scott Joplin) turns into Jazz era.
Louis Armstrong came into fame in the late 1920s
The Jazz merged into the Swing era, and the
The Big Band covered both of these, with examples Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, etc.
It's out of the Big Band that singers like Frank Sinatra, Doris Day, Bing Crosby (he was earlier, actually, closer to Jazz era but had a staying power), etc.
There's the whole area of musical plays and movies that really give you a smattering of 20th century music, to get composers like George and Ira Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Lerner and Loewe, Victor Herbert, etc.
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Pavarotti!!!
Jose Carreras
Placido Domingo
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George Cohan (it's a grand ol' flag etc)
Hank Williams
And then there's the whole additions of types of music in the late 60 into the 70s.. hard rock and pop and disco, new age etc.. which brings to mind Elton John and Paul Simon and Billy Joel, CCR, Van Halin (sp?), Bon Jovi, Santana, AC/DC, Twisted Sister, ZZ Top, the Eagles, Enya, Kitaro, Yanni, Mark Knopfler.. and these are just the ones that I can easily find names for.
My dh actually took a course in college on the History of Rock and Roll.. so you might look for some books to help guide you rather than just going by what you might know. 
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Ooo, a course in the evolution of music in the 20th Century! I'm sure there is course plan somewhere on the web for guidance. Thanks for stirring my brain a bit!
Maybe even a decade-by-decade approach?
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Well, I for one don't see how you could look at 20th century music without really studying Aaron Copland! He was huge in defining what it meant to sound "American" (Beef commercial anyone?  ), borrowing from jazz and folk music alike. And he was instrumental in the movement to collect and preserve much of the folk music of the previous century.
Leonard Bernstein was also a driving force in 20th century music, as both a composer and a promoter of the arts. His Children's Concerts are just wonderful!
JennGM wrote:
There's the whole area of musical plays and movies that really give you a smattering of 20th century music, to get composers like George and Ira Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Lerner and Loewe, Victor Herbert, etc.
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Yes, and much of the best music of the century came from film scores. Miklos Rozsa and Erich Wolfgang Korngold are two of the pioneers who are considered to have composed some of the greatest film scores ever written. Just beautiful music.
Another interesting study is to listen to modern composers in light of giants of the past. For instance, it is clear that John Williams was HEAVILY influenced by Antonin Dvorak, especially in his earlier works. Dvorak was just on the cusp between the 19th and 20th centuries, and his New World Symphony has influenced and inspired many musicians and composers, and you can really hear strong themes from it come through in both the music from Jaws as well as the Imperial March in Star Wars.
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Oh, another composer from film to consider, Henry Mancini. A very distinctive sound from a particular era (the 60s), and a lot of fun to listen to for children.
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Following Lindsay.. John Williams (Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Harry Potter etc)
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I am really liking the idea of doing a unit of 20th century music! Thanks for the idea! I was needing a timeline and starting searching and found this. I will be checking our library too for resources. Anyone have any other resources?
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Collecting some sites that might helpful in my quest for 20th century music. I have not dug into all these sites, so browse at your own risk  .
Homeschool Diner - Resources for Music
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Music Timeline
History of Modern Music - UK version
History of Modern Music - Lectures (out of print, can't find an ebook yet)
Twentieth Century Music - this looks promising, need to see if I can find a library copy to browse.
The Rest is Noise by Alex Ross - this looks interesting. He has a website here and here is a review.
Music of Yesterday
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What?! Have you all left off Madonna, Lady Gaga and JayZ??? I don't know if I trust this list.....
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Betsy, you made me laugh!
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I keep meaning to add bands like "Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass" -- that era of music of Latin Brass bands. Great stuff!
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Bob Dylan of course! He's one of the most important artists of the last century, and a brilliant songwriter.
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I am sitting here working on making a list of music for us to study and it is overwhelming! Narrowing down to American 20th Century music is still huge, lol! I wrote down all names mentioned here and I'm searching our library. I also sent a message to my cousin who is a music major and works in the field. I thought his answer to, "if you could just pick 5 to study, who would it be?" could be interesting. I was happy to learn that our library has a huge cd collection and many dvd for some musicals. We are going to start this in January and continue as long as my boys are interested. I'm thinking a quick over view (make a timeline?) of the music genres and study a few. I plan to go back and study more in any genre dc find interesting. I think we will do more listening than studying.
I'm looking forward to this! Hopefully my boys find it fun too. Thanks for the idea, Lara!
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Late to the ballgame here, but when this was first posted I wanted to share an idea that we did several years ago when studying "American Root Music." Unfortunately I didn't keep a good record (or one I could find anyway) of the list of books we used. So it took awhile to get time to recompile that. Anyway, I tried to find good picture books that went along with studying the genre of music or the artists. There are some good ones out there. And also a caution that like with many biographies of those in the arts and music, you often get some lifestyles that are not ideal. So while I recommend these, there are some with some cautions about lifestyle and history so best to pre-read for your own comfort level. It is just a few and I don't remember which ones for sure.
I hope someone finds it interesting or helpful - even a few months late...and it does cover more than just 20th century, since there was older music that influenced the 20th century music.
AMERICAN ROOTS MUSIC UNIT STUDY WITH PICTURE BOOKS
This is a PBS documentary on American Roots Music that puts the history and the connections of the roots of the music together. There are lots of teacher resources with it.
American Roots Music Documentary (PBS)
::Teachers Resources
These are a couple general resources for the history and evolution of musical forms in the African-American community. Since it covers multiple genres I listed separately here.
I See the Rhythm (Toyomi Igus)
Just Listen To This Song I'm Singing: African-American History Through Song (Jerry Silverman)
These are the picture book resources by genre, going somewhat chronologically through the origination - lots of overlap in influence.
COWBOY
Home on the Range: John A. Lomax and His Cowboy Songs (Deborah Hopkinson)
Lyrics
~ Old Chisholm Trail: A Cowboy Song (Rosalyn Schanzer) - song lyrics
~ Zebra-Riding Cowboy: A Folk Song From the Old West (Angela Shelf Medea) - song lyrics
HILLBILLY/HONKY TONK/BLUEGRASS/COUNTRY
Honky-Tonk Heroes and Hillbilly Angels: The Pioneers of Country and Western Music (Holly George-Warren)
The Long Gone Lonesome History of Country Music (Bret Bertholf)
FOLK
Folk Song Picture Books (English & American)
Froggy Went A-Courtin’ (John Langstaff)
Hush Llittle Baby: A Folksong with Pictures (Marlla Frazee)
The Fox Went Out on a Chilly Night (Peter Spier)
Over in the Meadow (John Langstaff)
Erie Canal (Peter Spier)
I’ve Been Working on the Railroad (Nadine Westcott)
Artists & Lyrics (Folk Revival)
::Woody Guthrie
Woody Guthrie: Poet of the People (Bonnie Christensen)
~ This Land Is Your Land (Illustrator, Kathy Jakobsen) – song lyrics
Odetta The Queen of Folk (Stephen Alcorn)
::Bob Dylan
When Bob Met Woody: The Story of the Young Bob Dylan (Gary Golio)
~Forever Young (illustrator, Paul Rodgers) – song lyrics
Passing the Music Down (Sarah Sullivan) - Melvin Wine, Jake Krack
~Blowin’ in the Wind (illustrator, John Muth) – song lyrics
~Puff the Magic Dragon (illustrator, Eric Puybaret) – song lyrics
~Sunshine on My Shoulders (illuatrator, Christopher Canyon) – song lyrics
SPIRITUALS/GOSPEL/WORK SONGS
In the Hollow of Your Hand: Slave Lullabies (Alice McGill)
Artists & Lyrics
A Band of Angels (Deborah Hopkinson) – inspired by Fiske Jubilee Singers
~This Little Light of Mine (illustrator, E. B. Lewis) – song lyrics
~ He's Got the Whole World in His Hands ] (Illustrator, Kadir Nelson) – song lyrics
~Follow the Drinking Gourd (illustrator, Jeanette Winter) – song lyrics
*Opera*
When Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson (Pam Munoz Ryan)
BLUES
The Blues Singers: Ten Who Rocked the World (Julius Lester)
Roots and Blues: A Celebration (Arnold Adoff)
Blues Journey (Walter Dean Myers)
Artists & Lyrics
Bessie Smith and the Night Riders (Sue Stauffacher)
Black Cat Bone, the Life of Blues Legend Robert Johnson (J. Patrick Lewis)
JAZZ
Jazz ABZ: An A to Z Collection of Jazz Portraits with Art Print (Wynton Marsalis)
Jazz (Walter Dean Myers)
The Sound that Jazz Makes (Carole Boston Weatherford)
Jazz on a Saturday Night (Leo & Diane Dillon)
This Jazz Man (Karen Ehrhardt)
Artists & Lyrics
Early – Armstrong, Morton
Swing – Ellington, Miller, Basie, Calloway, Dorsey, Goodman, Holiday, Fitzgerald
Modern – Gillespie, Parker, Coltrane, Monk, Davis
::Louis Armstrong
If I Only Had a Horn: Young Louis Armstrong (Roxane Orgill)
Satchmo's Blues (Alan Schroeder)
When Louis Armstrong taught Me Scat (Muriel Harris Weinstein)
::Josephine Baker
Jazz Age Josephine: Dancer, singer--who's that, who? Why, that's MISS Josephine Baker, to you! (Jonah Winter)
Ragtime Tumpie (Alan Schroeder)
::Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra (Andrea Pinkney)
Duke Ellington's Nutcracker Suite (Anna Harwell Celenza)
Ellington Was Not a Street (Ntozake Shange) – Mentions Jazz greats including Elllington, Gillispie
::Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Fitzgerald: The Tale of a Vocal Virtuosa (Andrea Davis Pinkney)
Skit-Scat Raggedy Cat: Ella Fitzgerald (Roxane Orgill)
~A Tisket, A Tasket (illustrator, Ora Eitan) – song lyrics
::Billie Holiday
Mister and Lady Day (Amy Novesky)
~God Bless the Child (illustrator, Jerry Pinkney) – Billie Holiday song lyrics
Sweethearts of Rhythm (Marilyn Nelson) - swing band, 1940s
When Grandmama Sings (James Ransome) - swing jazz band, fictional
::Savoy (Jazz dance hall)
Stompin' at the Savoy: The Story of Norma Miller (Alan Govenar)
Happy Feet: The Savoy Ballroom Lindy Hoppers and Me (Richard Michelson)
Django: World's Greatest Jazz Guitarist Bonnie Christensen
Piano Starts Here, The Young Art Tatum (Robert Parker)
::John Coltrane
Charlie Parker Played Be Bop (Christopher Raschka)
Before John Was a Jazz Giant: A Song of John Coltrane (Carole Boston Weatherford)
Spirit Seeker:John Coltrane’s Musical Journey (Gary Golio)
Dizzy (Jonah Winter)
Lookin' for Bird in the Big City (Robert Burleigh) – Miles Davis (& Charlie Parker)
Mysterious Thelonious (Chris Raschka)
Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue (Anna Harwell Celenza) – jazz elements
ROCK
Shake, Rattle and Roll: The Founders of Rock and Roll (Holly George-Warren)
Artists & Lyrics
::Elvis Presley
Shake Rag, From the LIfe of Elvis Presley (Amy Littlesugar)
~ Elvis Presley's Love Me Tender (illustrator, Tom Browning) – song lyrics
Buddy: The Story of Buddy Holly (Anne Bustard)
The Beatles Were Fabulous (and they were funny) (Kathleen Krull)
Little Stevie Wonder (Quincy Troupe)
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