Recommended Records, Filmstrips, Books for the School Curriculum, 1960
Title | Recommended Records, Filmstrips, Books for the School Curriculum, 1960 PDF eBook |
Author | Children's Music Center |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 80 |
Release | 1960 |
Genre | School music |
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Revolutionizing Children's Records
Title | Revolutionizing Children's Records PDF eBook |
Author | David Bonner |
Publisher | Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages | 386 |
Release | 2007-11-26 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1461719380 |
Young People's Records and Children's Record Guild were the first commercially significant record clubs in the world. By applying proven book club methods to the field of phonograph records, these two related companies attracted some hundred thousand subscribers at their peak and serviced perhaps a million members in their existence. Revolutionizing Children's Records: The Young People's Records and Children's Record Guild Series, 1946-1977 tells the history of YPR/CRG, explaining how these two labels intersected important developments in the histories of mass marketing, recording technology, educational philosophy, folk music, contemporary composition, and Cold War politics. David Bonner covers in detail the history of YPR/CRG, tracing its influences back to the beginnings of music education in the 19th Century and incorporating the impact of the American folk music revival on music educators. The narrative follows the career paths of the company principals, such as its progressive founder Horace Grenell; the musicians who recorded for him, like American folk music revival pioneer Tom Glazer; and the record industry offshoots they created in the process. Bonner considers advances the club made in recording technology as the first record label devoted exclusively to "unbreakable" vinyl discs and provides a comprehensive summary of record club marketing, including the application of "music appreciation" to phonograph records. He also charts the commercial, critical, and political response to these endeavors, including an historical footnote to the "Red Scare" unavailable in existing Cold War literature. A complete and detailed discography listing every YPR and CRG recording, including all known writers and performers, concludes this excellent reference for scholars, nostalgists, and phonographic fanatics.
Learning from the Left
Title | Learning from the Left PDF eBook |
Author | Julia L. Mickenberg |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 408 |
Release | 2005-11-10 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 019988238X |
At the height of the Cold War, dozens of radical and progressive writers, illustrators, editors, librarians, booksellers, and teachers cooperated to create and disseminate children's books that challenged the status quo. Learning from the Left provides the first historic overview of their work. Spanning from the 1920s, when both children's book publishing and American Communism were becoming significant on the American scene, to the late 1960s, when youth who had been raised on many of the books in this study unequivocally rejected the values of the Cold War, Learning from the Left shows how "radical" values and ideas that have now become mainstream (including cooperation, interracial friendship, critical thinking, the dignity of labor, feminism, and the history of marginalized people), were communicated to children in repressive times. A range of popular and critically acclaimed children's books, many by former teachers and others who had been blacklisted because of their political beliefs, made commonplace the ideas that McCarthyism tended to call "subversive." These books, about history, science, and contemporary social conditions-as well as imaginative works, science fiction, and popular girls' mystery series-were readily available to children: most could be found in public and school libraries, and some could even be purchased in classrooms through book clubs that catered to educational audiences. Drawing upon extensive interviews, archival research, and hundreds of children's books published from the 1920s through the 1970s, Learning from the Left offers a history of the children's book in light of the history of the history of the Left, and a new perspective on the links between the Old Left of the 1930s and the New Left of the 1960s. Winner of the Grace Abbott Book Prize of the Society for the History of Children and Youth
Music Curriculum Guides
Title | Music Curriculum Guides PDF eBook |
Author | Harold Walton Arberg |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 60 |
Release | 1964 |
Genre | School music |
ISBN |
Books for Schools and the Treatment of Minorities
Title | Books for Schools and the Treatment of Minorities PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Ad Hoc Subcommittee on De Facto School Segregation |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 848 |
Release | 1966 |
Genre | Discrimination in education |
ISBN |
Books for Schools and the Treatment of Minorities
Title | Books for Schools and the Treatment of Minorities PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House. Education and Labor |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 884 |
Release | 1966 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Educational Screen & Audio-visual Guide
Title | Educational Screen & Audio-visual Guide PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 728 |
Release | 1961 |
Genre | Audio-visual education |
ISBN |