New book brings Somali music to the classroom
On a recent Thursday, the school day hadn’t yet started at Burnsville’s Gideon Pond Elementary School. But a long-awaited moment had arrived. In her music classroom, Becca Buck opened a brown paper envelope. “Here we go!” she said. “Our baby!” Buck and her co-author Qorsho Hassan, who met as teachers at Gideon Pond, were about to hold their new book—The Rhythm of Somalia: A Collection of Songs, Stories, and Traditions—for […]