Title: Teaching Social Studies in Music Class
Headings: Teaching Social Studies in Music Class
Teaching Social Studies in Music Class
Citizenship of Musicians
Musical Microeconomics
Music Geography
Discovering History Through Musical Artifacts

Content: Music Geography
Classroom map showing the places connected to the music my students are working on. Music and place are linked through cultural traditions of particular regions. Through geography, students can see how place affects music and music affects place. • Develop students’ geospatial skills while teaching the context of music by referring to maps in music class. Even my kindergartners love looking at maps and use them to make personal connections with their music. “ Our song comes from Kansas? My aunt lives in Kansas!” • Compare and contrast songs with lyrics about particular places. What do the words and the musical elements of the songs tell about the places? • Teach about instruments that are unique to certain places, and find similarities between instruments from different parts of the world.