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October 13, 2005

Music institute gets NEH funds

Pitt’s Center for American Music, part of the University Library System, has received $165,581 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to hold another “Voices Across Time” institute, June 26-July 28.

The institute features a series of workshops, field trips and seminars that will train teachers to use popular American songs to educate young people in history, literature, civics, economics, social studies and language arts. The institute, to be held on the Pittsburgh campus, was last presented here in 2004 and attracted 25 teachers from around the country.

“Voices Across Time” will include a faculty of national education specialists, historians and songwriters to provide workshop participants with materials and techniques to help them weave American music into a subject’s existing curriculum.

“The sound of history is missing from our classrooms,” says institute co-director Deane Root, who also is director of the Center for American Music and chair of Pitt’s music department. “Over the years, songs have allowed everyday people to voice their attitudes, opinions or beliefs. Music provides a very real soundtrack to events throughout history.”

Teachers interested in applying for the institute can write to amerimus.pitt.edu or call 412/624-4100.

Filed under: Feature,Volume 38 Issue 4

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