Teaching Materials | Rock & Pop

OCR/AQA/Edexcel: solo artists of the 21st century

There are several GCSE and A Level specifications that include pop music from the 1990s to the present day. This resource will look at the music of three extremely well-known solo artists of the 21st...

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WJEC AoS4: Manic Street Preachers ‘Everything Must Go’

In this resource, I don’t intend to replicate the content of any of the excellent resources available on the WJEC website. Instead, the resource will suggest ways into tackling the song through...

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Lo-fi hip-hop

This resource attempts to describe a favourite unit of mine: lo-fi hip-hop. We’ll look at the essentials of the subgenre, the potential for musical learning, and a suggested approach to delivering a...

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Eduqas AoS4: Toto’s ‘Africa’

There are already many resources available for this set work, both from Eduqas and from the internet more widely. This resource won’t duplicate their content. Instead, we’ll look at ideas for...

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Developing wider listening: pop music of the 1990s

The last five resources in the Developing Wider Listening series – which has now been running for over two years – have taken us on a journey through a huge diversity of popular musical styles, which...

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Developing wider listening: pop music of the 1980s, part two

The pop scene in the 1980s was a hugely diverse, technology-driven hotbed of high fashion, music videos and ultra-fast stylistic changes. In part one of this resource (Music Teacher, February 2023) we...

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Developing wider listening: pop music of the 1980s, part one

By the end of the 1970s, pop music was a vastly commercial business, and its exponents often enjoyed immense riches and luxurious lifestyles, paid for by healthy record sales, airplay on radio or TV,...

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Developing wider listening: pop music of the 1970s

This is the third part of our latest series of wider listening resources, exploring pop music in the second half of the 20th century. We’ve tracked the journey of pop music from its roots in American...

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Developing wider listening: pop music of the 1960s

Last month, we began the latest part of our wider listening series, exploring the diversity of pop music in the second half of the 20th century, decade by decade. We looked at four specific genres of...

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Developing wider listening: pop music of the 1950s

Now that wider listening is such a key part of the exam boards’ music specifications, students taking GCSE and A level music need to have a broad understanding of a range of musical styles in addition...

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Practice techniques

There’s so much that could be explored around the theme of practising, and it would be impossible to cover all of it in a single resource. Therefore, this resource is focused around particular...

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Rock classics

This resource provides some lesson materials for Key Stage 3 inspired by some classic rock songs of the 1960s and 1970s era. We'll explore songs and performances that will give them a sense of a time...

KS 3