All the learning in this unit is focused around one song: Bringing Us Together - a Disco song about friendship, peace, hope and unity.
1. Listen and appraise the song Bringing Us Together and other Disco songs:
● Bringing Us Together by Joanna Mangona and Pete Readman
● Good Times by Nile Rodgers
● Ain’t Nobody by Chaka Khan
● We Are Family by Sister Sledge
● Ain’t No Stopping Us Now by McFadden and Whitehead
● Car Wash by Rose Royce
2. Musical Activities - learn and/or build on your knowledge and understanding about the interrelated dimensions of music through:
a. Warm-up games (including vocal warm-ups)
b. Flexible games (optional extension work)
c. Learn to sing the song
d. Option: Play instruments with the song in the chorus sections only
e. Option: Improvise with the song in the chorus sections only
f. Option: Compose with the song in the chorus sections only
3. Perform the song - perform and share
Below are some thoughts about social themes and topics that may arise from this song for discussion and/or further investigation:
● How are we kind to our friends? Each other?
● Are we kind to new people that come to our school?
● We are all different and that is brilliant, let’s celebrate that
● Kindness
● Respect - be respectful of one another, wherever you are from, wherever you live, whomever you love
● Friendship
● Peace
● Listen to one another
● Happiness
● Welcome new people and new ideas
● Acceptance - accept everybody
● Music from around the world
● People from around the world
● New ideas and cultures to learn about and get to know