Due to popular demand, we continued watching thefilm on the Wobblies (Industrial Workers of the World) on Friday. Today we'll finish whatever we didn't get a chance to discuss or think about on Friday. Thus, today's reading/researching assignment will be a repeat of that scheduled for Friday the 16nth. For convenience's sake, I'll copy it to here:
Read, in Weissman,
Chapter 5. Protest Songs as a Tool for Social Change.The rest of the chapter.
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There are eighteen sections in the reading assignment for today, most of them are quite short, but each section names songs and performing groups. and we'll see again the crossover between protest songs and slave songs, the blues music, and gospel. Sometimes all that changes is are the words--new ones set to old tunes.
I want you to read the whole section-- Then I'd like you to investigate more deeply about eight of them--doing what we've done before. See what you can find on the about the songs, topic, singer(s) associated with them and add those to your resource folder. Remember to add "details"--in some cases these might be lyrics, or biographical information, or just what listening to the song did for you. (Look Familiar?) It is a (slightly) revised version of Tuesday's assignment.
We're going to turn our attention to an analysis of some specific songs, using the next book on our list, Songs of Work and Protest. I want to try something new. Below is a list of songs I've assigned to everyone, two each. If you've started to thumb your way through the book you've seen that each song contains includes words, melodies, and a brief analysis. What I want you each to do is research the two songs assigned to you, and talk about it a bit in class. I'd also like to have you find a recording (or two) of the songs you've been assigned, and add the link to your resource folder. This is an experiment. I'm not sure how long it will take to get through it. I'm assuming we won't finish it one day, so I'm going to use Friday, as a way to continue our way through the list.
We're going to continue with an analysis of some specific songs, using the next book on our list, Songs of Work and Protest. I want to try something new. above is the list of songs I've assigned to everyone, two each. If you've started to thumb your way through the book you've seen that each song contains includes words, melodies, and a brief analysis. What I want you each to do is research the two songs assigned to you, and talk about it a bit in class. I'd also like to have you find a recording (or two) of the songs you've been assigned, and add the link to your resource folder. This is an experiment. I'm not sure how long it will take to get through it. We'll continue where we left off on Wednesday
