TEACH CHARACTER EDUCATION RESPECT AND TOLERANCE SONGS
Culture of HATE - Learn about the connections
between charivari, rough music and forerunners of the KKK in American Southern history. Find out about
Wassail and the Mummers in Philadelphia, PA. Many of the Hate songs being sung by "folk
groups" at "folk music events" show the Intersection between
Cultural Identity and Racist Ideology.
"Operation Respect"
"Don't Laugh at Me" song school curriculum, music, videos, teaching
ideas--all revolving around teaching respect.
LEARN YOUR STATE SONGS and through them your state
history. Classroom Music: Why don't teachers teach our state songs in our schools?
WAR SONGS AND WOODSTOCK
"But the songs of a nation are probably the last things which are committed to writing, for the
very reason that they are remembered"
From the Bard who knew songs with 2500 verses
down through time to the minstrels who knew maybe a hundred verses to end up being sung by the women who
were paid to come to funerals and cry.