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Thread #83635 Message #1540165
Posted By: GUEST,Art Thieme
11-Aug-05 - 01:37 PM
Thread Name: No regional songs of the northern US ??
Subject: RE: No regional songs of the northern US ??
For 22 years I did shows and workshops in schools. I would hand out maps of mostly just the outline of the United States. Substituted for placenames on that map, I had typed in "song titles" on general geographic areas of the country. The NORTH, SOUTH, WEST, WEST COAST, EAST COAST, CANADA too----and also the Florida Keys, Bahamas, and all the islands.
The Great Lakes were prominent---and I did notate major rivers as the emigration routes the people often used to more easily penetrate the wilderness.
The students would color in the different areas of the map which were indicated by broken lines.
And then we would travel from East to West, more or less like the migration routes, as I sang the unique songs from all these regions.
The maps were very colorful when the workshops were ended!! Nice mementos of our musical journey.