Geography and Music

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Geography and Music

• Dr. S. Kay Gandy
• Co-Coordinator
• Kentucky Geographic Alliance

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What is geography?

• The Earths surface and the processes that shape
  it, the relationships between people and
  environments, and the connections between people
  and places
• Geography Education Standards Project, 1994

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• Concept Songs (oceans, continents)
• Familiar Tunes
• Song Books
• Mobiles, Quilts

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Weve Got the Whole World

• Weve got North and South America in our hands
• Weve got Europe, Asia, Africa in our hands
• Weve got Australia and Antarctica in our hands
• Weve got the continents in our hands

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Weve Go the Whole World cont.

• Weve got the Indian Ocean in our hands
• Weve got the Arctic Ocean in our hands
• Weve got Atlantic and Pacific in our hands
• Weve got the oceans in our hands

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Sing a Sea Song

• The earth is all covered with ocean, the earth is
  all covered with sea, the earth is all covered
  with ocean, more water than land dont you see
• Water, water, theres water all over the world,
  the world water, water, theres water all over
  the world

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Sing a Sea Song cont.

• Atlantic, Pacific, the Arctic, and then theres
  the Indian too. These Oceans all cover our
  planet, I named all of them now can you?
• Water, water, theres water all over the world,
  the world water, water, theres water all over
  the world

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Na Na Hey Hey

• Na na na na, Na na na na, Lets name the seven
  continents
• North America, South America, Europe, Asia and
  Australia
• Antarctica, and Africa, we can name the seven
  continents
• Na na na na, Na na na na, hey, hey, hey, good-bye

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Books, Quilts and Mobiles

• The River by Garth Brooks
• Star Spangled Banner
• Yankee Doodle
• My Country Tis of Thee
• This Land is Your Land

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Cultural Geography

• Cajun Musicmade for dancing
• Cajun Dance
• Cajun Instruments
• Violin/fiddle, accordion, drums, bass, guitar,
  triangle
• Zydeco
• Black version of Cajun, blues and RB influence,
  added washboard instrument

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Jambalaya (Hank Williams, 1952)

• Good-bye Joe, me gotta go, me-o, my-o
• Me gotta go pole the pirogue down the bayou
• My Yvonne, sweetest one, me-o, my-o
• Son of a gun well have big fun on the bayou
• Jambalaya, crawfish pie and filé gumbo
• Cause tonight Im gonna see my cheramie-o
• Pick guitar, fill fruit jar and be gay-o
• Son of a gun well have big fun on the bayou
• Thibodeaux to Fontenot, the place is buzzin
• Kinfolks come to see Yvonne by the dozen
• Dress in style, go hog wild, me-o, my-o
• Son of a gun well have big fun on the bayou

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Kentuckys Music Culture

• Dwight Yoakam (Readin, Rightin, Rt. 23
  movement of Kentuckians to jobs in the north)
• My Old Kentucky Home (Stephen Foster)
• Boots Randolph (Yakety Sax)
• Shaker Music (South Union, Pleasant Hill)

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Lesson The Dulcimer

• Names
• Appalachian dulcimer
• Mountain dulcimer
• Kentucky dulcimer
• dulcymore
• harmonium
• hog fiddle
• Kentuckys official state instrument

Click on picture
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Music continued

• Other Styles
• Jazz, Blues, Country, Folk, Classical, Rap, Pop
• What connections can be made to geography?

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Western Songs

• The Streets of Laredo
• The Dying Cowboy
• Home on the Range
• The Land County Bachelor
• Ive Been Working on the Railroad

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Location, Location, Location

• Historical Geography
• Battle of New Orleans
• Locations
• State capitols

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Test on Locations Rock and Roll Across America

• With a partner, try to find the locations you
  hear on your U.S. map.

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Other Location Songs

• Hooray for Hollywood
• My Old Kentucky Home
• Oklahoma
• Moon Over Miami
• Kansas City
• Georgia on my Mind

• Missouri Waltz
• Pennsylvania Polka
• San Antonio Stroll
• Only in Miami
• Houston
• New York, New York
• Galveston
• Chicago

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Activity

• Design a non-linguistic representation for the
  song
• What A Wonderful World.

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Online Resources

• Bowling Green State University
  http//www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/music/
• With almost a million recordings, the Sound
  Recordings Archives represents the largest
  collection of popular music recordings in an
  academic library in North America.
• Festival Finder http//www.festivalfinder.com/
• The site where you'll discover the latestdetails
  on more than 2,500 music festivals in North
  America.
• Songs for Teaching http//www.songsforteaching.co
  m/socialstudiessongs.htm
• Songs for geography, government, history,
  patriotism, and culture

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Organization

• The National Geographic Society (NGS)
• Western Kentucky University
• Co-Coordinators
• Scott Dobler, Department of Geography Geology
• Kay Gandy, School of Teacher Education

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KGAS MISSION

• To provide pathways through which teachers can be
  exposed to geography and geographic thinking
• To maximize opportunities for students to become
  geographically literate and to appreciate
  geography as part of their everyday lives
• To actively promote the value of geography and
  geography education at local, state and national
  levels

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• EVENTS

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How Can You Be Involved?

• Pre-service Teacher Conference
• Teacher Summer Institute
• GPS Day
• Geography Awareness Week
• Geographic Bee
• Steering Committee
• Kentucky Atlas
• Strategic Planning

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Educational Outreach

• Webpage
• www.kga.org
• Listserv
• Email
• kga_at_wku.edu