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Jon Batiste: Music & Social Change

The document provides an overview of musician Jon Batiste including his background, social activism around issues like freedom and love, and analyzes clips from his music videos "Freedom" and "Sweet" which showcase his message of social change through movement, colors, and instruments. Students are asked to make observations after watching the clips and discuss how artists like Elvis Presley and James Brown used their performances to liberate people.

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Jon Batiste: Music & Social Change

The document provides an overview of musician Jon Batiste including his background, social activism around issues like freedom and love, and analyzes clips from his music videos "Freedom" and "Sweet" which showcase his message of social change through movement, colors, and instruments. Students are asked to make observations after watching the clips and discuss how artists like Elvis Presley and James Brown used their performances to liberate people.

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Soul Body Percussion Play Along - Beginner

I Need You Rhythm Play Along


LET’S
BREATHE–
MINDFUL
MINUTE
JON
B AT I S T E
BLACK EXCELLENCE
IN MUSIC
Students will be able

Objective:
to connect the music
of Jon Batiste to social
change, and identify
new and familiar
instruments by
analyzing the music
videos to, “Freedom”,
and “Sweet”.
Bonus Blue

Automatic

Thoughtful

Encouraging
Who is Jon Batiste?
• Grammy Award Winning American
Musician and TV Personality
• Born Nov. 11, 1986 in Louisiana
• Holds two degrees from Juilliard
• “The Late Show” Band leader
• Went to high school with Trombone
Shorty!

• Wrote the music for


Pixar’s “Soul”
STAY
HUMAN
• “Music is a tool that brings
people together”
• Social language
• Love Riots
Social Change
• "It's like when Elvis was shaking his hips on the

Ed Sullivan Theater stage and people were

flipping out," he told Relix magazine. "It's just

the whole aspect of fighting for people's rights

and their freedom, and not just so that we could

drink out of the same water fountain or go to

the same bathroom. It's also so that we could

love who we want and be how we want.”


Stay Human Love Riot in Brooklyn - 2016
Let’s Watch a Clip! Make an observation,
prepare to share!
• Clothing

• Colors

• Instruments

• Dancing

• Vehicles
“When I move my body just like this
I don't know why
But I feel like freedom”

• Revolutionary artists like Elvis Presley, James Brown and Mavis


Staples.
• The way they moved and expressed themselves onstage liberated
people to act as they wanted rather than being constrained by
society.
Freedom - Jon Batiste, 2021
PAIR AND SHARE
Sweet by Dianne Warren
• Featuring Jon Batiste and Pentatonix, the A Capella Group
Sweet – Dianne Warren (2021)
D R A W A
P I C T U R E O F
S O M E T H I N G
Y O U
L E A R N E D
A B O U T
T O D A Y O R
O B S E R V E D
I N A V I D E O

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