Music and Culture

Study Music Heritage through Online Video

With this title, you'll discover how three different cultural groups express their heritage through music. Use our 3 online educational video titles to discover how three different cultural groups--sub-Saharan Africans, Native Americans, and Polynesians--express their heritage through music. Listen to a variety of musical excepts, and learn how geography influences music. Experience the spirited call-and-response pattern of African song...the ceremonial beat of Native American tribal drums...the rhythmical movements of Polynesian dance.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand how geography influenced the creation of the traditional music and musical instruments of Polynesians, sub-Saharan Africans, and Native North Americans.
• Identify examples of a membranophone, idiophone, aerophone, and chordophone.
• Identify some of the traditional musical instruments and styles of dance developed by Polynesians, sub-Saharan Africans, and Native North Americans.
• Identify the ways music has been used as a form of expression in each of these three cultures, including the spirited call and response pattern of African song; the ceremonial beat of Native American tribal drums; and the native dances of Polynesians, who use rhythmic arm and hand movements to illustrate lyrics.

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• Polynesian (Runtime: 14:37)
• African (Runtime: 15:14)
• North American Indian (Runtime: 10:31)