{"id":6069,"date":"2026-09-16T11:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T08:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/?p=6069"},"modified":"2026-09-24T11:21:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T08:21:53","slug":"research-the-history-of-the-album-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/visual-literacy\/research-the-history-of-the-album-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"Research the History of the Album Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An album cover can tell a story before you have even heard a single note. <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/ib-history\/albums\/\">For this project<\/a><\/span><\/strong>, each member of the class will be given a different album to investigate. Your challenge is to <strong>look closely at its cover, discover the history behind the image, and then explore the connection between that history and the music<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/ib-history\/albums\/mosaic.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An album cover can tell a story before you have even heard a single note. For this project, each member of the class will be given a different album to investigate. Your challenge is to look closely at its cover, discover the history behind the image, and then explore the connection between that history and&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/visual-literacy\/research-the-history-of-the-album-cover\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[212],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6069"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6070,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6069\/revisions\/6070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}