Video
Grades: PreK Kindergarten 1 2 3 4 5
Gullahnet: Shake Em, Shake Em
Music Activities
Learn about the influence of African American music through these activities.
Shake Em, Shake Em | Gullah Music
Got the Blues | Gullah Music
Interactive
Grades: PreK Kindergarten 1 2 3 4 5
Students will understand traditional blues form that contains three four-measure phrases that follow the pattern AAB. Let Reverend Leroy show you how to express your sad feelings by composing a blues...
Praise House | Gullah Music
Interactive
Grades: PreK Kindergarten 1 2 3 4 5
Students will understand how enslaved Africans created music for their worship experience. Religious meetings in “praise houses” provided the spiritual outlet for enslaved Africans on the plantation...
Secret Code | Gullah Music
Interactive
Grades: PreK Kindergarten 1 2 3 4 5
Students will understand that music and material culture became a mode of covert communication between slaves. Aunt Pearlie Sue is our guide as students uncover hidden messages in the work songs...