Curated OER
Migration of Music
In this music worksheet, learners identify and define migration. They circle the different types of music created by the African-Americans who were brought to the New World. Students also explain why slavery is a bad thing.
Contemplator
Casey Jones
Provides a brief biography about the engineer Casey Jones and songs written by him.
Yale University
Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: How to Blues
This site has ten lessons to teach about the blues in which students learn the geography, historical events and performers associated with the blues. The unit has been recognized by the American Music Education Initiative as one of the...
Other
Shanties and Sea Songs
This site features lyrics to numerous sea songs and shanties. Also, related information and weblinks are included. Although online sound clips would be nice, at least good sources of recordings of this type of music are listed.
Other
Lyrics to Shanties and Sea Songs
Find lyrics to numerous sea songs, shanties, and pilot songs.
National Institutes of Health
She'll Be Coming Around the Mountain
Provides the lyrics to the song, "She'll Be Coming Around the Mountain".