I'm going to start teaching my sons for their home schooling, music. I rather stray away from the crap I did in school. Which basically was watching musicals and doing some kind of choir crap at Xmas and the end of the year.
I want to teach them about bands, singers and classical music. Stories of these people, to watch films based on their lives and surround them for 3 weeks with their work. Even a book if I can find them.
Does anyone have suggestions for artists? Movies based on them, books you can suggest...things of that nature. We aren't starting this till August so I have a few months. I figured this would be a good time to start rounding up the year studies.
I have so far
1. Mozart
2. Bach
3. Lou Reed
4. David Bowie
5. Dizzy Gillespie
6. Leonard Cohen
7. Wendy O
8. Billie Holiday
I'd like to have bands that are current to, and after we study them we will go to their concerts etc so they can see them live.
I'm open to any genre as long as there is more than their music available for learning (docum. books. etc) I want them to be able to connect the personality of the artist with their work.
Thanks guys!



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