About This Lesson
Introduce students to Indigenous Musician musician Pura Fé to teach about Indigenous Music and Culture, plus creativity, community, cultural preservation and more! This lesson is great for Music and Social Studies classes.
About this Episode
My Music with Rhiannon Giddens Season Two Episode Six features Native American vocalist and lap steel guitarist Pura Fé, who has both Tuscarora and Taino blood in her veins and generations of ancestors in her voice. She shares her personal background and musical journey in an episode that culminates in a Silk Road Ensemble performance of her song “Mahk Jchi”.
About the Learning Guide
This learning guide introduces students to Native American musician Pura Fé, her musical experiences, Indigenous/Native American History, and American Transcontinental Railroad History. It also connects to Music Lessons and History through Music.
This learning guide can help you teach about about:
- Creativity and Curiosity
- Community and Creative Support
- Cultural Preservation and Reclamation
- Social and Scientific Constructions of Memory
- Language, Art, and Accessibility
- History of the American Transcontinental Railroad and Native Americans
- History through Music
- Music Lessons
The learning guide contains background context about the Transcontinental Railroad, a Pre-viewing Activity, and Active Viewing Recommendations.
It also includes glossaries / lists of useful terms, discussion questions, related resources, and extended learning activates. The extended learning activities can include our supplementary Music Listening Handout and Song Analysis Handout.
About the Series: My Music with Rhiannon Giddens Season 2
Pulitzer Prize and Grammy winner Rhiannon Giddens hosts a half-hour series of musical performance and conversation with multicultural musicians in the Silk Road Ensemble’s American Railroad project. The outstanding guest artists of the series are innovative and accomplished musicians and storytellers who have forged unconventional paths to find their voices. My Music with Rhiannon Giddens brings US history alive to explore the development of the Transcontinental Railroad during western expansion in the United States. The series also deepens understanding and connection and can build community around the cultures that were first connected by the building of America’s Transcontinental Railroad.
This is a great resource to teach with for Music in our Schools Month (March), Indigenous People’s Day (October 10), and Native American/Alaska Native Heritage Month in November.
Get the Google Slideshow version of this presentation and learn more about teaching with My Music with Rhiannon Giddens, including where to watch it, from Journeys in Film.
