Our task How can we, as AGS scholars, communicate the synthesis of the amendments in music to our peers so that they may critically think about them? Make a playlist of songs related to rights and/or amendments Analyze and explain the meaning of songs Connect the songs to amendments
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Our task How can we, as AGS scholars, communicate the
synthesis of the amendments in music to our peers so that they may critically think about them?
Make a playlist of songs related to rights and/or amendments
Analyze and explain the meaning of songs Connect the songs to amendments
Our Songs You Haven’t Done Nothing – Stevie Wonder The Unknown Soldier – The Doors This Land is Your Land – Woody Guthrie Born Free – Kid Rock 1913 Massacre – Woody Guthrie Get Up, Stand Up – Bob Marley The Times are a Changing – Bob Dylan Give Peace a Chance – John Lennon and Yoko Ono Happy Xmas (War is Over) – John Lennon 99 Problems – Jay-Z We Can’t Stop – Miley Cyrus Hurricane – Bob Dylan
What amendments are covered?
Most of our songs are protest songs, and they cover the First Amendment, as the artists have the right to speak out against the government
America is the land of opportunity There is nothing different from “you and me” “This land was made for you and me” – Expresses
freedoms and rights not explicitly stated in the Constitution, referring to the Ninth Amendment
“This land is my land, this land is your land” – These lyrics imply equal freedom as well as equal protection of the law, referring to the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
1913 Massacre – Woody Guthrie
Describes the Italian Hall Disaster in Calumet, Michigan, in 1913
Many people were packed into a music hall for Christmas Eve celebrations
Someone yelled “Fire!” although there was in fact no fire
Many people died from being trampled The song brings up the debate involving the First
Amendment, if any speech is protected by said right
What we learned Artists can subliminally exercise their rights in
their music The Amendments impact our lives more than we
think they do The First Amendment is the most popular and
most widely exercised amendment of all Most amendments that are mentioned are those
about social issues, rather than those about political issues