Introduction
Music against segregation
Considered as sub-men, subjected to slavery and segregation, Black American have managed to integrate into society while preserving their unity and culture, but also by advocating their autonomy, their difference and their pride to be black. The government, the society and the justice (so the power) were based on injustices and inequalities against black people. Music was a way to fight against this power. and to fight against segregation, against this inequality and injustice. It was used also to give hope to black American and to denounce their situations.
THISWEBQUEST DEALS WITH THE MUSIQUE AGAINST SEGRGATION
Task
Your task is to do, with the informations of this webquest an article about the music against segregation. You have to deepened the subject by doing more research (oral or writing as you prefer).
Process
QUESTION
1) Fill in the following chart with the main songs we will treat
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http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=14238 TAKE MY HAND, PRECIOUS LORD |
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http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=34635 BLACK, BROWN AND WHITE |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_and_Blue_(Fats_Waller_song) (WHAT DID I DO TO BE SO) BLACK AND BLUE |
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http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=3673 A CHANGE IS GONNA COMME |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lift_Every_Voice_and_Sing LIFT EVERY VOICE AND SING |
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http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=10289 SAY IT LOUD- I’M BLACK AND I’M PROUD |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowin%27_in_the_Wind BLOWING IN THE WIND |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Shall_Overcome WE SHALL OVERCOME |
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2) True or false ? Visit the following website and justify your answer.
a) The singers engaged against segregation was all blacks people (https://newsone.com/1460645/top-10-civil-rights-protest-songs-of-all-time/)
True or false
b) This song we shall overcome dates back to before the Civil War (https://www.thoughtco.com/we-shall-overcome-1322523)
True or false
c) "SAY IT LOUD" After this music many black Americans were ashamed of their skin color. It had the opposite effect of the meaning of the lyrics of the songs. (https://www.shmoop.com/say-it-loud/meaning.html)
True or false
3) Fill in the holes in the sentences with the website
a) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Thomas_Shipp_and_Abram_Smith#Incident)
This song was made to denounce the...................................... of the two teenagers ........................ ........................ and .......................... ............................. . This frightful scene was taken in photos by ........................... ............................. a photographer of the ............. .
b) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Thomas_Shipp_and_Abram_Smith#Incident)
The two teenager had been arrested, charged with ..................... and ....................... a factory worker, Claude Deeter, and .................... his girlfriend.
c) (http://www.lyricsfreak.com/b/billie+holiday/strange+fruit_20017859.html)
In the song the rots fruits reprensente the two ........................... .
4)Answer the following questions:(http://kingencyclopedia.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/encyclopedia/enc_songs_and_the_civil_rights_movement/index.html)
a) What was brought by music to the victims of segregation and to the civil rights movement ?
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b) What song became the anthem of the Civil Rights Movement?
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c) For what occasion, in 1955-1956, baptist and methodist hymns and traditional Negro spirituals were heard?
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Evaluation
| Introduction | Process | Choice of resources | Language proficiency | Overall opinion |
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□ Clear □ Motivational □ Topic well explained |
□ Questions are clear and precise □ Questions are varied □ Links direct to the right page; information is easy to find. |
□ Reliable sources □ Documents are varied (text, video, images, audio) |
□ Good English □ Some mistakes but it is understandable □ I couldn't understand some parts. |
□ It was interesting! □ It was boring ! □ It was fun ! □ It was too hard ! □ It was too easy ! |
Conclusion
I hope you have traveled through these wonderful music jazz and gospel and his soul and blues music with powerful lyrics
Thank you for reading and doing my webquest and good luck!!!!!!!!!!
Here is others links to heard the best musics (for me) engaged against segregation
Louis Armstrong - Go Down Moses:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf6jBP4YXwo
This song is inspired by the biblical history of Moses and the Israeli people.
The Israeli represents the African slaves of America whereas Egypt and Pharaoh represent slave masters.
JOHN COLTRANE Alabama
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saN1BwlxJxA
John Coltrane write this song “Alabama” after the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing that killed four young black girls in 1963. The instrumental use jazz aesthetics to evoke the anger and sadness over the senseless killings in a way that perhaps no lyric could convey.