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How Music is a Voice for Change
Album Description
Music has been used throughout history as a voice for change. Spirituals were sung during slavery about escaping and making it to the promised land. Songs were sung during wartime to encourage people to enlist. Some war songs were sung about winning the war. Songs were even created during prohibition to make the statement that if there was no beer, there would be no work. This album contains a collection of sources that speak to how music is a voice for change! 
Art/Music
Image 1 of Will you ever give the colored race a show: an appeal to Congress words and music by Robt. P. Jackson.
Teaching Notes
In addition to having students analyze the cover, read through the plea on the next page that gives insight into the challenges and discrimination for people of color during the latter part of the 19th century. The lyrics are a plea for change. Art/Music discrimination
Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/resource/lprbscsm.scsm0092/?sp=1
Reference note
Contributor Names: Jackson, Robert P. (Composer)
Created / Published: [s.n.], Chicago, Illinois, c1898
Subject Headings: - Slavery
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
- African American
- abolition
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Sumner, Charles (1811-1874)
- Republican Party
- Sheet Music
- United States -- Illinois -- Cook -- Chicago
Genre: Sheet Music
Repository: Rare Book And Special Collections Division
Digital Id: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/lprbscsm.scsm0092
No beer, no work! a humorous song
Teaching Notes
This is a humorous song to get the message across to end prohibition!
Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2013564446/
Reference note
Contributor Names: Ballmann, Martin
Ballmann, Anna (lyricist)
Philipp, Theodore (lyricist)
Created / Published: 1919, monographic.
Martin Ballmann,, Chicago :, [1919].
Subject Headings: - n-us---
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Songs and music
- Beer -- Songs and music
- Humorous songs
- Prohibition -- United States -- Songs and music
- Popular music -- United States -- 1911-1920
Genre: notated music
Notes: - words by Theodore Philipp and Anna Ballmann ; music by Martin Ballmann. (statement of responsibility)
- For voice and piano.
- Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. (additional physical form)
- Staff notation. (language)
"Big" BIll Broonzy
Teaching Notes
This is a spoken recollection by the blues singer of discrimination from the early 20th century. discrimination blues Art/Music Social Studies/History
Off the record interview with Pete Seeger, 1988-03-22
Teaching Notes
Starting at 3:10 on this voice recording, Pete Seeger reflects singing at a meeting of the Longshorman's Union (He was part of the Union singers, along with Woodie Guthrie) He discusses “Oh you can’t scare me I’m sticking to the Union, Art/Music ” song by Woodie Guthrie.
Reference link: https://www.loc.gov/item/jsmith000191/
Reference note
Contributor Names: Smith, Joe (1928-) (Interviewer)
Seeger, Pete (1919-) (Interviewee)
Created / Published: March 22, 1988
Subject Headings: - Interviews
Genre: Interviews
Notes: - This recording is protected by copyright laws in the United States. The Library of Congress has obtained permission from the donor to offer it as streamed audio. The authorization of rights holders of the recording is required in order to obtain a copy of the recording. Contact rsrc@loc.gov for more information.
- Edited for the web from tape RYN 0104 A
Repository: Motion Picture, Broadcasting And Recorded Sound Division
Digital Id: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsrs/mbrsjoesmith.1836093
Image 1 of Let woman vote! : song & chorus
Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/resource/mussuffrage.mussuffrage-100059/?sp=1&r=-1.134,-0.048,3.269,1.409,0
Reference note
Contributor Names: Towne, T. Martin (Thomas Martin), 1835-1911 or 1912, composer.
Towne, Belle Kellogg, 1844-1923, lyricist.
Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880, dedicatee.
Created / Published: Chicago : Root & Cady, [1869]
©1869
Subject Headings: - Women--Suffrage--United States--Songs and music
- Feminist music--United States
- Songs with piano
- Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices) with piano
Genre: Songs
Scores
Notes: - For voice and piano with choral refrain (SATB).
- Copyright stamp: "Apr 12 1869."
- "Respectifully inscribed to Mrs. L. Maria Child."
- Staff notation.
Digital Id: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/mussuffrage.mussuffrage-100059