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Author : Tracey West
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Education
ISBN : 0439043875
Contains classroom activities that use folk songs to connect students to major events in U.S. history.
Author : Ronald D Cohen,Will Kaufman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317252092
Wars have dominated the history of the United States since its founding, but there has also been a long history of antiwar activity. Peace songs have emerged out of every military conflict involving the United States. "Singing for Peace" vividly portrays this rich antiwar history, beginning in the eighteenth century and continuing into the twenty-first.Most of the twentieth-century output was dominated by folk groups and acoustic singer-songwriters. The Vietnam War saw the increased dovetailing of folk and rock music, so that rock and folk-rock took on an ever-larger share of protest activity, then punk, metal, hip-hop, and rap. The authors draw upon a wide range of primary and secondary sources, while quoting many popular and lesser-known song lyrics, and including a range of photos and illustrations. These songs have long served to both shape and reveal the feelings of citizens opposed to America s wars."
Author : Jon Meacham,Tim McGraw
Publisher : Random House
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780593132968
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A celebration of American history through the music that helped to shape a nation, by Pulitzer Prize winner Jon Meacham and music superstar Tim McGraw “Jon Meacham and Tim McGraw form an irresistible duo—connecting us to music as an unsung force in our nation's history.”—Doris Kearns Goodwin Through all the years of strife and triumph, America has been shaped not just by our elected leaders and our formal politics but also by our music—by the lyrics, performers, and instrumentals that have helped to carry us through the dark days and to celebrate the bright ones. From “The Star-Spangled Banner” to “Born in the U.S.A.,” Jon Meacham and Tim McGraw take readers on a moving and insightful journey through eras in American history and the songs and performers that inspired us. Meacham chronicles our history, exploring the stories behind the songs, and Tim McGraw reflects on them as an artist and performer. Their perspectives combine to create a unique view of the role music has played in uniting and shaping a nation. Beginning with the battle hymns of the revolution, and taking us through songs from the defining events of the Civil War, the fight for women’s suffrage, the two world wars, the Great Depression, the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, and into the twenty-first century, Meacham and McGraw explore the songs that defined generations, and the cultural and political climates that produced them. Readers will discover the power of music in the lives of figures such as Harriet Tubman, Franklin Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Martin Luther King, Jr., and will learn more about some of our most beloved musicians and performers, including Marian Anderson, Elvis Presley, Sam Cooke, Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan, Duke Ellington, Carole King, Bruce Springsteen, and more. Songs of America explores both famous songs and lesser-known ones, expanding our understanding of the scope of American music and lending deeper meaning to the historical context of such songs as “My Country, ’Tis of Thee,” “God Bless America,” “Over There,” “We Shall Overcome,” and “Blowin’ in the Wind.” As Quincy Jones says, Meacham and McGraw have “convened a concert in Songs of America,” one that reminds us of who we are, where we’ve been, and what we, at our best, can be.
Author : Diane Holloway
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Popular music
ISBN : 0595193315
Songwriters dramatically captured the details of how Americans lived, thought and changed in the first half of the twentieth century. This book examines 1033 songs about WWI and WWII wars, presidents, Women’s Suffrage, Prohibition, the Great Depression, immigration, minority stereotypes, new modes of transportation, inventions, and the changing roles of men and women. America invited immigrants and went to war to ensure democracy but within its borders, lyrics display intolerant attitudes toward women, blacks, and ethnic groups. Songs covered labor strikes, communism, lynchings, women voting and working, love, sex, airships, radio, telephones, the lure of movies and new movie star role models, drugs, smoking, and the atom bomb.History books cannot match the humor, poignancy, poetry and thrill of lyrics in describing the essence of American life as we moved from a rural white male dominated society toward an urban democracy that finally included women and minorities.
Author : Mel Bay Publications, Incorporated
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1975-09-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 078668058X
Author : Henry Eisenkramer Ed. D.
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781513475554
For the most practical use of this book, the author selected fold songs which are known and sung in schools, scouting organization and by other recreational, educational and social groups. These are also songs which can be chorded with a few simple chords. In this case, I have used the simplest chording rather than the richest chording so that persons with only a limited knowledge of the instruments can play them. The songs are arranged in their chronological order in history, offering a few songs from each period.
Author : George R. Nethercutt,Tom M. McArthur
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Popular music
ISBN : 0982659709
Former U.S. Congressman George R. Nethercutt Jr. and his coauthor have produced a brief history of America through song. The book includes historical background and text of more than two dozen songs that shaped American history from the 1700s to the present.
Author : James Sullivan
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : MUSIC
ISBN : 9780190660307
An anecdotal history of the progressive movements that have shaped the growth of the United States, and the songs that have accompanied and defined them
Author : Shane White,Graham J. White
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0807050261
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Author : Will Kaufman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316514337
A groundbreaking work of historical recovery which tells the story of the American people who sang their way through struggle.
Author : Janet Gilray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1934922366
American history embedded in song is truly something to sing about; especially forchildren. This book has been published in response to a question so many of my studentsregularly asked over my years as a classroom teacher, żMs. Gilray, can we sing a songtoday?ż It sounds so simple, but regulations governing classroom instruction todayrequire that songs fit the curriculum. This collection of songs is standard based to helpfulfill this requirement.Songs in this book are more than a hundred years old. They have been handed down,grandparent to parent, parent to child, family to familyżfor generations. I was fortunateto have learned most of these songs in my childhood. Though I did not realize the historicimplications at the time, I knew I loved the way the songs bridged the generational divideto make me feel one with my elders.The goal of this book is to give all children żsomething to sing aboutżża connectionwith past generations, the joy that comes with singing together, and a chance to carryforth the legacy left by people who shaped our nation in its early years.
Author : John Anthony Scott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Ballads, American
ISBN : UCSC:32106012927023
Author : Sheryl Kaskowitz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199339556
"God Bless America" is a song most Americans know well. It is taught in American schools and regularly performed at sporting events. After the attacks on September 11th, it was sung on the steps of the Capitol, at spontaneous memorial sites, and during the seventh inning stretch at baseball games, becoming even more deeply embedded in America's collective consciousness. In God Bless America, Sheryl Kaskowitz tells the fascinating story behind America's other national anthem. It begins with the song's composition by Irving Berlin in 1918 and first performance by Kate Smith in 1938, revealing an early struggle for control between composer and performer as well as the hidden economics behind the song's royalties. Kaskowitz shows how the early popularity of "God Bless America" reflected the anxiety of the pre-war period and sparked a surprising anti-Semitic and xenophobic backlash. She follows the song's rightward ideological trajectory from early associations with religious and ethnic tolerance to increasing uses as an anthem for the Christian Right, and considers the song's popularity directly after the September 11th attacks. The book concludes with a portrait of the song's post-9/11 function within professional baseball, illuminating the power of the song - and of communal singing itself - as a vehicle for both commemoration and coercion. A companion website offers streaming audio of recordings referenced in the book, links to videos of relevant performances, appendices of information, and an opportunity for readers to participate in the author's survey. Based on extensive archival research and fieldwork, God Bless America sheds new light on cultural tensions within the U.S., past and present, and offers a historical chronicle that is full of surprises and that will both edify and delight readers from all walks of life.
Author : Fred Cooper,Gregg Harris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1997-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1568570333
... a fun and easy way to teach and learn American history. Not only is the music of each period captured, but all of the most important historical information as well. Each ballad is supported with a complete chapter of explanations and illustrations to bring history to life ...
Author : Ira Dworkin
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469632728
In his 1903 hit "Congo Love Song," James Weldon Johnson recounts a sweet if seemingly generic romance between two young Africans. While the song's title may appear consistent with that narrative, it also invokes the site of King Leopold II of Belgium's brutal colonial regime at a time when African Americans were playing a central role in a growing Congo reform movement. In an era when popular vaudeville music frequently trafficked in racist language and imagery, "Congo Love Song" emerges as one example of the many ways that African American activists, intellectuals, and artists called attention to colonialism in Africa. In this book, Ira Dworkin examines black Americans' long cultural and political engagement with the Congo and its people. Through studies of George Washington Williams, Booker T. Washington, Pauline Hopkins, Langston Hughes, Malcolm X, and other figures, he brings to light a long-standing relationship that challenges familiar presumptions about African American commitments to Africa. Dworkin offers compelling new ways to understand how African American involvement in the Congo has helped shape anticolonialism, black aesthetics, and modern black nationalism.
