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

Other amendments covered:o Fourth Amendmento Ninth Amendmento Fourteenth Amendmento Twenty-sixth Amendment

This Land is Your Land – Woody Guthrie

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

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Our Playlist

http://grooveshark.com/playlist/Bill+Of+Rights/102005047

WARNING – The songs on this playlist are not censored and do contain obscene language

Citations Dylan, Bob. Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits. Columbia, 1994. CD.

Dylan, Bob. The times They Are A-changin' Columbia, 1986. CD.

Guthrie, Woody, Cisco Houston, Joe McDonald, Jack Elliott, Jim Kweskin, Joan Baez, and Odetta. The

Greatest Songs of Woody Guthrie. Vanguard, 1972. CD

Jay-Z. The Black Album. Rock-a-Fella Records, 2003. CD

Lennon, John, and Yoko Ono. Happy Xmas (War Is Over). Parlophone, 2003. CD.

Lennon, John, John Lennon, and Yoko Ono. Give Peace a Chance. Apple, 1969. CD.

Marley, Bob. Legend the Best of Bob Marley and the Wailers. Tuff Gong, 2002. CD.

Rock, Kid, Martina McBride, T. I., Sheryl Crow, Bob Seger, and Zac Brown.Born Free. Atlantic, 2010.

CD.

War Protest. 1969. Ann Arbor. The Ann Arbor News. Web. 29 Oct. 2014.

<http://www.annarbor.com/news/how-the-anti-war-protests-of-the-1960s-and-70s-changed-

the-political-face- of-ann-arbor/>.

Cyrus, Miley. We Can't Stop. RCA Records, 2013. CD.

Guthrie, Woody. 1913 Massacre. Asch Records, n.d. CD.

Wonder, Stevie. You Haven't Done Nothin' UTV Records/Motown, 2002. CD.

Citations (Cont.) Morrison, Jim. By Robby Krieger, Ray Manzarek, and John Densmore. The Unknown Soldier. The

Doors. Paul A. Rothchild, 1968. CD.

"Anthems for a New Generation." : "You Haven't Done Nothin'" N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Oct. 2014.

"Guthrie Writes "This Land Is Your Land"" History.com. A&E Television Networks, n.d. Web. 29 Oct. 2014.

"Protest Song of the Day: ’1913 Massacre’ by Woody Guthrie | The Dissenter." Protest Song of the Day:

’1913 Massacre’ by Woody Guthrie | The Dissenter. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Oct. 2014.

""Born Free" Lyrics." KID ROCK LYRICS. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Oct. 2014.

"Bob Marley and the Wailers - Get Up, Stand Up Lyrics | SongMeanings."SongMeanings. N.p., n.d. Web. 29

Oct. 2014.

"The Times They Are A-Changin'." The Official Bob Dylan Site. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Oct. 2014.

"John Lennon – Give Peace A Chance." Genius. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Oct. 2014.

"The Right of Privacy: Is It Protected by the Constitution?" The Right of Privacy: Is It Protected by the

Constitution? N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Oct. 2014.