Friday 5: Special Mystery Guest: Integrating Popular Music Across Disciplines

[Lucy Gray]

Please welcome our fourth Friday 5 special mystery guest, ADE Meredith
Melragon. Meredith, incidentally, is joining me at my new place of
employment and will serve as a tech coach at Woodlawn High School, one
of the University of Chicago Charter Schools. - LG

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At the recent Rock Hall Teacher Institute, I highlighted a couple of
ideas to consider: popular music illustrates cultural pheomena,
cultural production, economics, intellectual property, and the science
of sound just for a few ideas.

Ark of Noise -- Baschet Brothers sculptures
http://www.ark.ie/archive/archive023.html

First Gershwin Prize for Popular Song
http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2007/07-010.html

Music Genome Project
http://pandora.com/

Steve Jobs thoughts on music
http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughtsonmusic/

Metacritic
http://www.metacritic.com/music/

Summer Teacher Institute
http://www.rockhall.com/teacher/summer-teacher-institute