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American Music: David Grisman
This Educator Guide is about the history of bluegrass music.
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Artist as Inventor: Paul Dresher
This Educator Guide traces the legacy of new instrument development and experimentation and its impact on music.
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Community Institutions for the Arts: Ashkenaz
This Educator Guide tracks the history of this community venue and others like it as a point of connection and learning about world cultures.
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Educational Tool: Approaching Your Bias
This Educational Tool provides tips for facing the inherent challenges of teaching about contemporary artists and their work.
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Educational Tool: Arts Assessment
This educational tool describes the role of assessment in a standards-based visual and performing arts classroom. This document also provides several options for substantive forms of assessment in the arts.
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Educational Tool: Arts Classroom Tips
This educational tool provides classroom management tips, teaching strategies, and pedagogies for classrooms dedicated to Visual Arts, Music, Dance, and/or Theater.
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Educational Tool: Connections, Relations and Applications
This educational tool provides direction for making connections between the various arts disciplines, between the arts and other subject areas, and careers in the arts.
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Educational Tool: Developing Arts Programs
This educational tool is a comprehensive list of foundations and organizations offering funding for arts education programs in Northern California.
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Educational Tool: Literacy-Based Instructional Strategies
This Educational Tool provides literacy-based instructional strategies that may be used in conjunction with arts media screenings in the classroom.
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Educational Tool: Media Tips
This Educational Tool provides techniques for using Spark in the classroom including critical viewing tips, media production terms and concepts, and talking points about media production and media literacy.
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Educational Tool: Multiple Intelligences
This Educational Tool describes Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences and how it relates to Spark's educational programming and resources.
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Educational Tool: Music Vocabulary
This document is a comprehensive vocabulary list related to Music.
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Global Village: Diamano Coura West African Dance Company
This Educator Guide is about distintive musical structures and dance traditions unique to West Africa.
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Home, Sweet Home: Lorraine Hansberry Theatre
This Educator Guide is about the history of drumming, street performers, and African American musical theater.
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Master Teachers: Ali Akbar Khan
This Educator Guide offers explorations of North Indian Classical Music and culture.
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Masterworks: Terry Riley
This Educator Guide traces the history of minimalism and serialism in music, highlighting key contributions by noted composers such as Riley and Kronos Quartet.
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Musical Instruments: Wil Blades
This Educator Guide is about jazz, the history of the Hammond B3 organ, and the science of electronic instruments.
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Percussion: San Francisco Taiko Dojo
This Educator Guide is about the history and traditions of the ancient art of Taiko drumming in Japan and the contemporary innovations of a global music culture.
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Performance Ideas: Matt Davignon
This Educator Guide is about the history of experimental music and sound art.
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Playing with Technology: Walter Kitundu
This Educator Guide is about experimental music, turntablism, and the creation of new instruments inspired by those that are traditional.
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Spark 502: Amy X Neuburg
This Educator Guide includes research, discussion, and music-related activities in response to the use of electronics and experimentation in contemporary music.
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Spark 503: John Santos
This Educator Guide includes hands-on activities and discussion points related to the instruments and rhythms of Latin Jazz music.
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Spark 506: Howard Wiley
This Educator Guide includes activities that will teach students about the history of African American Southern folk traditions and the roots of jazz music.
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Spark 509: Chitresh Das
This Educator Guide discusses the history of Kathak dance and Chitresh Das’ career. Activities include improvisation, working with rhythms, and reflecting on dance as an art form.
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Spark 512: Klezmer
This Educator Guide includes cultural learning, dance, and music activities related to the klezmer tradition.
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Spark 607: Django Fever
This Educator Guide includes listening and discussion activities related to different genres of jazz music.
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Spark 609: The Bonsetter's Daughter
Introduce students to the world premier of a new American Opera created by composer Stewart Wallace and acclaimed author, Amy Tan. This educator guide explores the process of collaboration, and the hisory of both Chinese and Western operatic traditions.
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Spark 707: Kitka
This Educator Guide provides historical information about Eastern European vocal traditions and includes music-related lessons for the classroom.
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Steppin Out: Crooked Jades
This Educator Guide is about old-time music and its roots.
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Street Art: Los Cazadores del Sur
This Educator Guide is about the history and tradition of roving musicians from Medieval minstrelsy through the Modern mariachi.
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Technology Enabled Art: Pamela Z
This Educator Guide addresses the role and uses of technology in the arts.
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The Art of Improvisation: Rova Saxophone Quartet
This Educator Guide explores improvisation in music, jazz and free jazz.
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The Bleeding Edge: Loren Chasse
This Educator Guide explores sound and the history of sound as a musical form, extending back to the early 1900s.
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The Business of Art: Klein International String Competition
This Educator Guide traces the history of stringed instruments as well as the history of string competitions.
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The Young and the Restless: SFJAZZ All-Star High School Ensemble
This Educator Guide includes listening and research activities related to the history of Jazz music.
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Transplanting a Tradition: Orquesta la Moderna Tradición
This Educator Guide explores the history of danzón and the many music and dance forms it inspired.
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Up from the Street: Tommy Guerrero
This Educator Guide is about street culture in San Francisco, including skateboarding and its culture, as well as contemporary, instrumental music.
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