The American Road Tapestry funded by Library of Congress
Songmasters’ project, The American Road, was awarded a three-year grant to develop the digital delivery platform, the Tapestry. The American Road is a music-driven program with three major components – Education, Community, and Media – including music! – for use in schools, at home, and in communities nationwide.
At its core The American Road is an educational program, with more than 70 partners in education, civil society, and media collaborating with Songmasters to create the framework for the entire project. The American Road uses historically important American songs from the dawn of recorded music – around 1896 – to the present to drive a robust interdisciplinary curriculum, organized in two ways: thematically – into seven themes – and chronologically into seven “eras” or periods.
The Tapestry will deliver The American Road curriculum, providing new resources in new ways to make accessing and using primary source material easier, faster, more flexible, and more accessible by teachers and students. The Tapestry will offer unique tools and digital resources on it, including an interactive timeline that allows sorting by up to 9 additional filters; more than 160 curriculum units organized via Curriculum Maps, and all searchable through the timeline and filters; and easy ways to create,. store and assess student work.
