TEACH CHARACTER EDUCATION RESPECT AND TOLERANCE SONGS
“I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study matematics and philosphy, geography, natual history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture . . . . .”
Teacher Planbook: Integrating Folk Music, Folklore and Traditional Culture Instruction Into K-12 Education
“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” – Will Rogers
“Tradition is not to preserve the ashes, but to pass on the fire.” ~ Gustav Mahler
What is folklife?
Youtube 16 minutes
House of the Rising Sun Origin Story
Remembering Tossi Aaron
I KNOW YOU RIDER – Tossi Aaron’s role as a leader of AOSA began early in the organizations history
American Orff Schulwerk Association https://aosa.org
Orff Teacher, Founder of Orff Schulwerk PAOSA chapter, Author, Publisher, Folk singer and one of the founders of the Philadelphia Folk Festival in 1962 along with Kenny Goldstein who was the chair of the Dept. of Folklore and Folklife at Penn for 20 years.
I KNOW YOU RIDER
In the mid-1950s, traditional musician Bob Coltman found the song in the Lomax book, arranged it and began singing it frequently around Philadelphia and New England circa 1957-1960. In 1959 Coltman taught it to Tossi Aaron who recorded it in 1960 for her LP Tossi Sings Folk Songs & Ballads on Prestige International. Joan Baez recorded a version for her 1960 debut album on Vanguard Records but the track was not released until 2001. ( It’s a woman’s non- blues, first cut on my 1st album, cut in 1961, released in 62)
As Tossi sang in her 1960 recording of “I Know You Rider”
I know you, rider, gonna miss me when I’m gone
The sun will shine in my back door someday
March winds will blow all my troubles away
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is a Nazi
Marjorie Taylor Greene “proudly” announces that she is a “Christian nationalist” and says all Republicans “should be Christian nationalists.” SHE’S A RELIGIOUS FASCIST! Marjorie Taylor Greene spoke at a Neo-Nazi convention because she is a Nazi. Paul Gosar spoke at a Neo-Nazi convention because he is a Nazi. And Donald Trump called the neo-Nazis at Charlottesville “very fine people” because Donald is a Nazi.
Marjorie Taylor Greene said the GOP is the party of Christian nationalism and Christian nationalist policies “serve everyone.” Greene: “Republicans need to prove to the American people that we are the party of …Christian nationalism.” Her pronouns are Mein and Fuhrer.
- 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.
- PRESIDENTS SONG
- 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“ - High School Traditional Music Curriculum
- Cowboy Songs and folk tales
- Irish Cowboys and their songs
- The First References to Santa and the Jingle Bells Dance
- Learning from Lyrics by classroom teacher Johnathan Chase
- Introduce Albert Einstein while he plays the violin
- Historic American Sheet Music
- 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.
- Medicine shows
Lord Buckley: A Discography
Lord Buckley Hip Jazz Poet and Story Teller : A Discography
“Lord Buckley is a secret thing that people pass under the table,” novelist Ken Kesey said.
The Best of Lord Buckley, I BOUGHT THIS ALBUM IN 1970 !!!
Lord Buckley – Hipsters, Flipsters and Finger Poppin’ Daddies
Best 4th of July ballad “I Ain’t Got No Home” by Woody Guthrie against landlord Fred Trump
History of Jazz
History of Jazz – Ragtime, Spiritual, Jubilee, Gospel, Big Band, Swing, Boogie Woogie, Jazz