AMST 371.01
Songs of Protest, Songs of Praise
Roger Williams University
GHH 301
M, W, F, 9:00-9:50
Fall Semester 2015
Welcome Back from the long weekend. Europe celebrated Labor Day on May First every year. There were many unions parading in the streets of cities. The United States decided to celebrate Labor Day on the Monday in September, as the business community was not unfriendly with Unions. Click on the pictures above to learn more. Each connects to a different web page.
If you find yourelf in the classroom alone, there's a reason. it is LABOR DAY. We'll be on holiday--perhaps we'll be standing over a grill as the person is in the third picture above. Labor Day celebrates organized labor. I hope you'll find some time to look at the articles linked to the pictures top left, and maybe also take a look at the videos above and to the left.
The video above shows us what Dockery's plantion is, at least according to those who operate the foundation preserving it. To the left is a picture from an archive of pictures from Parchman Prison Click on it and see more of the illustrations. Following the same pattern I suggested for last week's work, Have your computer handy, and when you run across a person, tune, idea, whatever, which seems interesting to you, try to find out more, and with success, put it in your resources folder. I'd love to have each student add one resource per class session. Don't forget to send the e-mail notification. If someone else found something first, then go back and look again. You'll be able to find music as well as pictures and videos. Just search for the names of persons in Goia's book.