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Music & Social Change

Civil Rights

In harmony with the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of speech, music has long been an expression of faith, freedom, peace and justice. Throughout American history, songs have cried out against inequality, poverty and war, and in support of workers, civil and human rights. © 2008 Independent Television Service

Strange Fruit

• One of the MOST famous songs of protest … Strange Fruit

• The song was so controversial that Billie's record company wouldn't release it. Luckily, it was picked up by a smaller label and preserved to this day.

• When Billie Holiday premiered this song in a New York club in 1938, the civil rights movement hadn't approached its ultimate velocity.

• Its brutally frank lyrics tell the story of lynching

Strange FruitYouTube - Strange Fruit

Billie Holiday

The 60’s Peace MovementSongs Of Protest

Tie Dyed Generation

Power Of PeaceMusic & Social Change

• YouTube - Social Change Through The Power of Peace Adagio for StringsYouTube - Social Change Through The Power of Peace Adagio for Strings

What Songs Tells Us.....

• What Can Songs Tell Us About People and Society?

War…Music…Social Change

• War- topic and object of protest songs

• Every war has had songs pro & protesting

• Vietnam War- was particular was featured in protest songs,,,, partly because of the nature of the war, the draft, and also due to the general “zeitgiest” in America

• Civil War had many “fighting” songs written from both Yank & Reb perspectives

Blowin’ In The Wind (Verse 1)― Bob Dylan

How many roads must a man walk downBefore you call him a manHow many seas must the white dove sailBefore she sleeps in the sandYes, and how many times must the cannonballs flyBefore they are forever bannedThe answer, my friend, is blowing in the windThe answer is blowing in the wind

Blowin’ In The Wind (Verse 2)― Bob Dylan

Yes, and how many years can a mountain exist

Before it washed to the sea

Yes, and how many years can some people exist

Before they're allowed to be free

Yes, and how many times can a man turn his head

And pretend that he just doesn't see

The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind

The answer is blowing in the wind

Bruce Springsteen

Born In The USA― Bruce Springsteen

• Born down in a dead man's townThe first kick I took was when I hit the groundYou end up like a dog that's been beat too muchTill you spend half your life just covering up

Got in a little hometown jamSo they put a rifle in my handSent me off to a foreign landTo go and kill the yellow man

Born in the U.S.A.I was born in the U.S.A.I was born in the U.S.A.Born in the U.S.A.YouTube - Springsteen - Born in the USA [Acoustic]

Music & WarHonor – Valor – Casualties

Vietnam

Korean War

WW II

WW I

American Civil War

Barry McGuire

Eve Of Destruction―Barry McGuire

• YouTube - Where Have all the Flowers Gone: Eve of Destruction

• The eastern world, it is exploding

Violence flarin’, bullets loadin’

You’re old enough to kill, but not for votin’

You don’t believe in war, but what’s that gun you’re totin’

And even the Jordan River has bodies floatin’

But you tell me

Over and over and over again, my friend

Ah, you don’t believe

We’re on the eve of destruction.

WAR… Music Reflects National Mood

• War… Edwin Starr– YouTube - Edwin Starr - War (What Is It Good For?)

War―Edwin Starr

• War, huh, yeah.. what is it good for -- Absolutely nothing Uh-huhWar, huh, yeah…What is it good for--Absolutely nothingSay it again, y'all

War, huh, good GodWhat is it good forAbsolutely nothing..listen to me

Ohhh, war, I despiseBecause it means destruction of innocent lives

War means tears to thousands of mothers eyesWhen their sons go to fight and lose their lives

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War―Edwin Starr

• War, it ain't nothing but a heartbreakerWar, friend only to the undertake oooh, warIt's an enemy to all mankind The point of war blows my mindWar has caused unrest Within the younger generationInduction then destruction who wants to die

• Aaaaah, war-huhGood God y'all what is it good forAbsolutely nothing Say it, say it, say itWar, huh.. What is it good forAbsolutely nothingListen to me

Ballad of the Green Beret by Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler and Robin Moore, copyright 1966

• Fighting soldiers from the sky

Fearless men who jump and die Men who mean just what they say The brave men of the Green Beret

Silver wings upon their chest These are men, America's best One hundred men will test today But only three win the Green Beret

Ballad of the Green Beret

• Trained to live off nature's land Trained in combat, hand-to-hand Men who fight by night and day Courage peak from the Green Berets

Silver wings upon their chest These are men, America's best One hundred men will test today But only three win the Green Beret

Ballad of the Green Beret

• Back at home a young wife waits Her Green Beret has met his fate He has died for those oppressed Leaving her his last request

Put silver wings on my son's chest Make him one of America's best He'll be a man they'll test one day Have him win the Green Beret.

Civil War Songs

• Civil War Killing Floor• YouTube - US Civil War Music Video

• Just Before The Battle• YouTube - civil war songs

We Didn’t Start The Fire

YouTube - We Didn't Start The Fire

Vietnam Protest Songs

Fortunate Son

YouTube - Vietnam video montage

Goodnight Saigon

YouTube - Vietnam, Billy Joel’s War

Goodnight Saigon―Billy Joel

• We met as soul mates- On Parris IslandWe left as inmates- From an asylumAnd we were sharp- As sharp as knivesAnd we were so gung ho- To lay down our lives

We came in spastic- Like tameless horsesWe left in plastic- As numbered corpsesAnd we learned fast- To travel lightOur arms were heavy- But our bellies were tight

We had no home front- We had no soft soapThey sent us Playboy- They gave us Bob HopeWe dug in deep- And shot on sightAnd prayed to Jesus Christ- With all of our might

Goodnight Saigon―Billy Joel

• We had no cameras- To shoot the landscapeWe passed the hash pipe-

• And played our Doors tapesAnd it was dark- So dark at nightAnd we held on to each other- Like brother to brother

• We promised our mothers we'd writeAnd we would all go down togetherWe said we'd all go down together- Yes we would all go down together

Fortunate Son• Some folks are born made to wave the flag,

Ooh, they're red, whit and blue.And when the band plays "Hail to the chief",they point the cannon right at you.

• It ain't me,It ain't me. I ain't no senator's son.It ain't me, It ain't me. I ain't no fortunate one.

• Some folks are born silver spoon in hand,Lord don't they help themselves.But when the tax man comes to the door,Lord, the house looks like a rummage sale.

• It ain't me, It ain't me. I ain't no millionaire's son.It ain't me, It ain't me.

Fortunate Son

• I ain't no fortunate one.Some folks inherit star spangled eyes,Ooh, they send you down to war.And when you ask them,"How much should we give?"They only answer "More! More! More!"

• It ain't me, It ain't me.I ain't no military son.It ain't me, It ain't me.I ain't no fortunate one.It ain't me, It ain't me.I ain't no Fortunate Son.

Phil OchsI

Draft Dodger Rag― Phil Ochs

• I'm just a typical American boy from a typical American town

• I believe in God and Senator Dodd and keeping old Castro down

• And when it came my time to serve I knew better dead than red

• But when I got to my old draft board, buddy, this is what I said:

Draft Dodger Rag- Chorus

• Sarge, I'm only eighteen, I got a ruptured spleen And I always carry a purse I got eyes like a bat, my feet are flat, And my asthma's getting worse O think of my career, my sweetheart dear, And my poor old invalid aunt Besides, I ain't no fool, I'm a goin' to school,And I'm working in a defense plant

Draft Dodger Rag― Phil Ochs

• I've got a dislocated disc, And a racked up back I'm allergic to flowers and bugs,

• And when the bombshell hits, I get epileptic fits. And I'm addicted to a thousand drugs I got the weakness woes,

• And I can't touch my toes I can hardly reach my knees And if the enemy came close to me I'd probably start to sneeze

Labor Movements

• Caesar Chavez

Grape Boycott

• Mother Jones

Coal Miner’s Union

Sixteen Tons—Tennessee Ernie Ford

• Some people say a man is made outta mud A poor man's made outta muscle and blood Muscle and blood and skin and bones A mind that's a-weak and a back that's strong

You load sixteen tons, what do you get Another day older and deeper in debt Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go I owe my soul to the company store

Deportee― Joan Baez

• The crops are all in and the peaches are rott'ning,The oranges piled in their creosote dumps;They're flying 'em back to the Mexican borderTo pay all their money to wade back again

• My father's own father, he waded that river,They took all the money he made in his life;My brothers and sisters come working the fruit trees,And they rode the truck till they took down and died.

• Some of us are illegal, and some are not wanted,Our work contract's out and we have to move on;Six hundred miles to that Mexican border,They chase us like outlaws, like rustlers, like thieves.

Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues

Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues

• Old man Sargent sitting at the desk, The damned old fool won't give us no rest. He'd take the nickels off a dead man's eyes, To buy a Coca-cola and a Eskimo Pie.

• I've got the blues, I've got the blues, I've got the Winnsboro Cotton Mill blues, Lordy, lordy, spoolin's hard, You know and I know, I don't have to tell: Work for Tom Watson, got to work like hell. I've got the blues, I've got the blues, I've got the Winnsboro Cotton Mill blues

Pullman Porters Union

• Hold the Fort for we are coming,Union men be strong,Side-by-side we’re marching on,‘ Til victory is won.”

Joe HillTroubadour of Discontent

• Workers of the world, awaken!Break your chains, demand your rights. All the wealth you make is takenB y exploiting parasites. Shall you kneel in deep submissionF rom your cradles to your graves? Is the height of your ambitionTo be good and willing slaves?

Arise, ye prisoners of starvation!Fight for your own emancipation;Arise, ye slaves of ev'ry nation, in One Union Grand.Our little ones for bread are crying;And millions are from hunger dying;The end the means is justifying, 'Tis the final stand.

Social Class- Victories & Defeats Abraham, Martin, John, and Bobby

Abraham

• Has anybody here seen my old friend Abraham? Can you tell me where he's gone? He freed a lot of people, But it seems the good they die young.

• You know,

I just looked around and he's gone.

Martin

• Anybody here seen my old friend Martin? Can you tell me where he's gone? He freed a lot of people, But it seems the good they die young.

• I just looked 'round and he's gone. • Didn't you love the things that they stood

for? Didn't they try to find some good for you and me? And we'll be free Some day soon, and it's a-gonna be one day ...

John

• Anybody here seen my old friend John? Can you tell me where he's gone? He freed a lot of people, But it seems the good they die young.

• I just looked around and he's gone.

Bobby

• Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby? Can you tell me where he's gone?

• I thought I saw him walkin' up over the hill, With Abraham, Martin and John.

Huddie LedbetterAKA …”Leadbelly”

Discrimination―BOURGEOIS BLUES (Leadbelly)

Me and my wife went all over town And everywhere we went people turned us down

Lord, in a bourgeois town – It's a bourgeois town I got the bourgeois blues

Gonna spread the news all around Home of the brave, land of the free

I don't wanna be mistreated by no bourgeoisie Lord, in a bourgeois town -

Uhm, the bourgeois town I got the bourgeois blues Gonna spread the news all around

Sam CookeA Change Is Gonna Come

Change Is Gonna Come―Sam Cooke

• I was born by the river in a little tentOh and just like the river I've been running ever sinceIt's been a long, a long time comingBut I know a change gonna come, oh yes it will

It's been too hard living but I'm afraid to dieCause I don't know what's up there beyond the sky It's been a long, a long time comingBut I know a change gonna come, oh yes it will

Change Is Gonna Come ―Sam Cooke

• I go to the movie and I go downtown somebody keep telling me don't hang around It's been a long, a long time comingBut I know a change gonna come, oh yes it will

Then I go to my brotherAnd I say brother help me pleaseBut he winds up knocking meBack down on my knees

Change Is Gonna ComeCover Artists

• Sam Cooke• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUT1WgHat6I

• SamCooke ...Video History on A change is gonna come• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoNeL-hpL_4&feature=related

• Seal• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUrsMGf2Cqk

• Solo• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6uzbkBgxTo

• Patty LaBelle• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bCVDXTIynY&feature=related

• Terence Trent Darby• History and song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwSBbfECfFk&feature=related

• Lyrics and song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn0OFhDAE18&feature=related

• Syesha Mercado• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T16qQwXqB7Y

Malvina Reynolds

Boxes…All The Same?

Little Boxes― Malvina Reynolds

• Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes made of ticky tackyLittle boxes on the hillside, Little boxes all the sameThere's a green one and a pink one And a blue one and a yellow oneAnd they're all made out of ticky tacky Ad they all look just the same.YouTube - Little Boxes Claymation

Little Boxes― Malvina Reynolds

• And the people in the houses

All went to the universityWhere they were put in boxes

And they came out all the same,And there's doctors and there's lawyers, And business executivesAnd they're all made out of ticky tacky

And they all look just the same.

Little Boxes― Malvina Reynolds

• And they all play on the golf course a

And drink their martinis dry,And they all have pretty children

And the children go to schoolAnd the children go to summer camp a

And then to the universityWhere they are put in boxes

And they come out all the same.

100th Monkey.....

• The 100th monkey - initiating social change through positive thought - - YouTube

We Shall Overcome

Power Of MusicWe Shall Overcome

• Pete Seeger

YouTube - Pete Seeger - We shall overcome

• Peter Paul and Mary

YouTube - We Shall Overcome - Peter Paul And Mary

• Joan Baez

YouTube - Joan Baez - We shall overcome

• Mahalia Jackson

YouTube - We Shall Overcome - Mahalia Jackson - Faces of Black History

• Bruce Springsteen

YouTube - We Shall Overcome -- Bruce Springsteen

Joan Baez & Bob DylanWe Shall Overcome

Mahalia Jackson & Pete SeegerWe Shall Overcome

Mahalia Jackson

We Shall Over Come Bruce- The Boss Peter, Paul, & Mary

Power Of PeaceMusic & Social Change

• Women’s Voting RightsYouTube - Sister Suffragette - Mary Poppins

• DogfightingYouTube - Dogfighting Men In America Must Be Knocked Out!

• OutsourcingYouTube - The Simpsons - India Outsourcing - Modified

Music Can Change The World

What New SongsBring Awareness of Need For Change?

Who?What Song

Who?What Song

Who?What Song

Day Of Outrage… March For DecencyNational Action Network (NAN) Founded by Rev. Al Sharpton

NAN Decency Initiative Mission Statement (Brief Condensation)

• ….Established in order to address standards in the media and entertainment industries.

• …..Goal is to eliminate the use of three words in music and media; the “N” word, the “B” word and the “H” word, disrespecting women & African American community.

• …..Establish a single standard that will be adopted by media and entertainment entities that will respect all people regardless of race, gender & sexual orientation.

• ….Target record labels, major corporations and media conglomerates that continue to profit from racism and sexism.

Reactive Social Movement

• The Reverend Al Sharpton doesn't think Russell Simmons' recent demand for hip-hop's self-censorship is effective enough. The reverend and his National Action Network will protest offensive language in hip-hop with a March For Decency on May 3rd in New York walking from major label office to major label office.

"We aren't marching against artists—we are marching against record companies to ban these words completely," says Tamika Mallory, leader of the NAN's decency initiative. The ARTISTdirect Staff 05.01.07

Social IssuesFacing The Music

• Economic I can’t afford my gasoline

• Social

• Global

I Can’t Afford My Gasoline

• I got out of bed this morning,Got in my car and turned the key,Then I called outta work And I went back to bed,Because the needle was on "E".

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I Can’t Afford My Gasoline

• I can't afford my gasoline.The prices have become obscene.They're up 5 cents a day. Who has that kind of green?I can't afford my gasoline.

I Can’t Afford My Gasoline

I've got a friend who bought a hummer, (hum V yeah what a bummer)

One of those gigantic trucks, (he’s givin’ away a’lotta bucks)

He can't drive because he maxed out his credit cards(send him a sympathy card!)

Because his mileage really sucks. (six whole miles– tough luck!)

Time For Change Is....Slip Slidin’ Away!

Class Is Over…