Music in Arkansas: Origins

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Keywords
Arkansas music history Arkansas history AETN Arkansas music musical instruments Hopewell panpipe Native Americans Native American music Caddo Quapaw Osage religious music hymns spirituals Negro spirituals Arkansas Traveler military music marching songs Civil War music Civil War songs Arkansas composers William Grant Still Florence Price Luther G Presley Luther Presley Almeda Riddle Almeda James Riddle Scott Joplin folk music blues music country music WOK radio stations Arkansas radio King Biscuit Indigenous Peoples First Nations
Subjects
Music History-Social Science The Arts
Grade Levels
Grade 6 Grade 7 Grade 8 Grade 9 Grade 10 Grade 11 Grade 12
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Music in Arkansas: Origins

Music in Arkansas: Origins tracks the development of Arkansas's rich musical heritage, beginning with the discovery of a 200 BC Hopewell panpipe and concluding as King Biscuit Time hits the airwaves in 1941 Helena. Origins explores Arkansas's role in the development of fourteen distinct musical genres, as well as how the rich Arkansas soundscape has been influenced by various shifts in culture and by Arkansas's unique geographical regions.
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PBS Learning Media

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