TEACH HISTORY THROUGH SONG
Teaching to State Standards
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"History is written by the victors." Winston Churchill
History is Story Telling.
When partisan politicians take a wrecking ball to the work of teachers and scholars, you get a document that looks more like a party platform than a social studies curriculum.
Story Telling in History Textbooks
Censorship, Text Book Publishers & The Money
Music Doesn't Lie
TEACH HISTORY THROUGH the MUSIC OF AMERICAN CULTURE MAKERS And the role they played in shaping character.
TEACH The Nifty Fifty Song - Learn all the states and state capitols.
TEACH HISTORY THROUGH NURSERY RHYMES - Origins and History of Folksongs
MUSIC TRAVELS History and a stolen legacy
TEACH HISTORY THROUGH ROOTS MUSIC - Where does it come from?
Winter's Bone
Gordon McCann, an authority on Ozark music and dance, and it seems that he helped put the film makers in touch with the West Plains musicians. Here is a link to a No Depression interview with Merideth and here is a link to her web-site: http://maridethsisco.com/
ESSAY Bred and Buttered: Ozark Women On Screen
Daniel Woodrell, who wrote the novel Winter's Bone, lives in nearby West Plains where Marideth Sisco lives and works as a writer and teacher. She has been active on the Missouri folk music scene for many years. As mentioned, Kim and Jim Lansford are very fine performers of oldtime music based in Galena and have three wonderful CDs. Van Colbert of Willow Springs usually performs in a family band with his brothers but has a nice oldtime banjo album called Hillbilly Thug Life. The film soundtrack contains music and musicians not in the film and neglects some that was and were. The Blackberry Winter band has been formed to capitalize on the film's success. Of the local folks who saw the film, reaction has been largely positive in that the film as has the reaction to the Arkannsas based, if not filmed, True Grit. The latter film of course ends with the voice of the Missouri-based but Arkansas born Iris DeMent. Not surprisingly, neither rural film earned a squeak at the Academy Awards despite their considerable merits. ~ Mike Luster