泛读2unit2-music

1、Unit2 MusicMusic is the universal language of mankind.Pre-readingFamous Sayings Word PretestIn-reading Musics History May Show a Path to Future PeacePost-readingFast ReadingTopic & HomeworkContentMusic washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.音乐可以冲洗掉日常生活落在灵魂上的尘埃。 Without music, life would

2、 be a mistake. - Friedrich Nietzsche 没有音乐，生命将是一个错误。Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.若非音乐，我们今日可说，美丽的东西都死了。Lead-in Do you like music?3. What kind of music do you like best ?2. Do you often listen to the music?Types of Music(1) Traditional musicclassicalLight dan

3、cing(2) Pop musicCountry music folk music Rock and rollR&BRapElectronEnyaDamien RiceEric ClaptonTracy Clapton Text 1 Musics History May Show a Path to Future Peace1st Reading 3 minSkim the text and find out the main ideaThe different types of music are closely related with the development of society

4、. 2nd Reading 5 minutes Scan the passage and answer T or F questions in P20.Scan the passage and finish multiple choice 1-3, and 5 in P213rd Reading 3 minutes answer the following questions1. Who brought the folk music? 2. Are country music sad or happy?3. What do folk songs mainly talk about?4. Who

5、 is the king of rock and roll? Why did he become popular at that time?5. What are the names of popular black music?6. Whats the character of Punk?7. When did MTV start?Structure Chronological order 时间次序 (music history)1. country and folk music2. rocknroll3. soul, disco and rap4. new and oldPart I Co

6、untry and folk music OriginFavored byFeelings it expressesperiodCountry music Folk musicBritish IslesMixed with the bluesIts like country songs but it is more traditional and seriousFarmersWorkersWorking peopleworkersSad stories and broken hearts of loveTroubles such as economic problems lives of or

7、dinary people. Problems of American1920s1930s1950s 1960sCulture NotesThe Appalachian Mountains ,pleitjnHillbilly:Hillbilly music VS Folk music1930s: called the Appalachians 阿巴拉契亚山脉, a system of mountains in southeastern U.S. a term referring to certain people who dwell in rural, mountainous areas of

8、 the U.S., primarily Appalachia. FIRST SETTLERS: Scotch-IrishGreat depression in USCountry music in 1920sRepresentative figure-Jimmie Rodgers:An American country singer in the early 20th century known most widely for his rhythmic yodeling(布鲁斯风格的真假声唱法).Among the first country music superstars and pio

9、neers, Rodgers was also known as The Father of Country Music. My Little Old Home Down in New OrleansJimmie Rodgers (1897-1933)Folk music in 1930sBorn in Oklahoma, a witty poet, orator best known as an American singer-songwriter and folk musician, whose musical legacy includes hundreds of political,

10、traditional and childrens songs, ballads(民谣) and improvised works(即兴作品). Today people regard his ballads as historic and deeply humanistic accounts of the disasters in the 1930s and the struggle for migrant workers rights, and as powerful images of the urban poor.This Land is Your LandWoodie Guthrie

11、(1912-1967)In the 1950s Martin Luther KingLead peaceful marchesMarchers-We shall OvercomeJoan Baez -Folk Queen(1941-)We shall overcome,we shall overcome,we shall overcome someday.Oh, deep in my heart I do believe.That we shall overcome someday.We shall live in peace,we shall live in peace,we shall l

12、ive in peace someday.Oh, deep in my heart I do believe.That we shall overcome someday.Well walk hand in hand,well walk hand in hand,well walk hand in hand someday.Oh, deep in my heart I do believe.That we shall overcome someday.Martin Luther King(1929-1968)the Nobel Prize winnerone of the principal

13、leaders of the American civil rights movement a prominent advocate of nonviolent protest. challenge to segregation and racial discrimination in the 1950s and 1960s After his assassination in 1968, King became a symbol of protest in the struggle for racial justice.Bob Dylan(1941-)American musician an

14、d songwriterone important figure in contemporary folk music and rock music. Dylans songs of social protest, such as “Blowing in the Wind” (1962) associated with the civil rights movement in the United States. recognized as a rock icon and a gifted, prolific songwriter.Part II Rockn rollOrigin favore

15、d by causerepresentativeRocknrollR&BAmerican teenagersStrong dancebeatElvis PresleyWhite man with the black sound and the black feel.Elvis Presley(1935-1977)American singer and actorKing of Rock and Roleone of the first mass idols of American popular culture.one of the most popular and influential e

16、ntertainers of the 20th century. renowned as an early pioneer of rock music, fusing the sounds of country music and rhythm-and-blues influences with what was then the new rock-and-roll style.“Heartbreak Hotel,” recorded in Nashville in January 1956, was one of his most popular early songs.Part III S

17、oul, disco, and raporiginFavored byperiodSoulDiscoRap musicR&BBlack peopleIn the 1960sSoul musicLatin rhythmsMost AmericansIn the 1980s Fast street talkCombined with musicYoung black peopleIn the 1980sSoul musictype of popular modern Black American music, derived from gospel, blues and jazz, that ex

18、presses strong emotion 灵乐（美国现代黑人通俗音乐, 源自福音音乐 布鲁斯音乐和爵士乐, 表达浓烈的情感）Culture notesHarlem 哈莱姆 A district of Manhattan; now largely a Black ghetto. A major African-American residential, cultural and business center. defined by a series of boom-and-bust cycles(繁荣萧条周期 ).Black residents began to arrive en mas

19、se in 1904, with numbers fed by the Great Migration. In the 1920s-30s, the focus of the Harlem Renaissance, an outpouring of artistic and professional works. In the 1940s, job losses in the time of Great Depression and deindustrialization(工业化解除) of New York City after World War II, rates of crime an

20、d poverty increased significantly.New Yorks revival in the late 20th century has led to renewal in Harlem as well. By 1995, Harlem was experiencing social and economic gentrification(改造). Soul in 1960sRay Charles(1930-2004)An American musician/ “The only true genius in show business” A pioneer in th

21、e genre of soul music during the 1950s by fusing rhythm and blues, gospel, and blues styles into his early recordings. He helped integrate country and pop music during the 1960s with his crossover success on his Modern Sounds albums.Michael Jackson(1958-2009)Whitney Houston(1963-2012.2.11)I will alw

22、ays love youThe BodyguardRap TalkingFast street talk, with a strong rhythm.PartIV New and old Punk or new wave (rock music) 1970s1970s,1980s new way of listening to music1981 MTVPunk or New WavePunk, movement of disaffected youth of the late 1970s, manifesting itself in fashions and music designed to shock or intimidate