- Sweet Home Alabama by Lynyrd Skynyrd
(YouTube)
- the LYRICS :
"Sweet home Alabama
Where the skies are so blue
Sweet Home Alabama
Lord, I'm coming home to you "
(lyrics007.com)
Lynyrd Skynyrd and Neil Young
"Thanks to Neil Young, Lynyrd Skynyrd was inspired to write the song "Sweet Home Alabama"."
"Well, I hope Neil Young will remember
a southern man don't need him around anyhow"
Is "Sweet Home Alabama" Really Sweet?
(thrasherswheat.org)
- All Summer Long - Kid Rock Lyrics
"It was 1989, my thoughts were short my hair was long
Caught somewhere between a boy and man
She was seventeen and she was far from in-between
It was summertime in Northern Michigan...
We didn't have no internet...
Singing Sweet home Alabama all summer long"
(azlyrics.com)
- the VIDEO WITH LYRICS (YouTube) - UPDATED
- HISTORY
IN SONG (fortunecity.com/tinpan) :
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
SONGS OF THE SEA
1800s: IMMIGRATION FROM EUROPE & THE WESTWARD MOVEMENT
OUTLAWS & BADMEN (and -WOMEN)
SONGS FROM PENITENTIARIES & CHAIN GANGS
THE CIVIL WAR
THE RAILROAD IN AMERICAN SONG
TRAMPS, HOBOES, MIGRANT WORKERS, HOMELESS
TRAGEDIES AND DISASTERS
WORLD WAR I
THE LABOR MOVEMENT
1920s & 1930s; THE DEPRESSION & THE NEW DEAL
WORLD WAR II
LATE 1940s & 1950s: McCARTHY "WITCH-HUNTS;" NUCLEAR ARMS
RACE, THE KOREA WAR RACE RELATIONS & THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
1960s: THE BOMB SCARE, THE GENERATION GAP, THE VIET-NAM WAR
- Idem, mais
avec contexte historique (folkarchive.de)
-
No more kings
New activity by Renée Maufroid
- Dear
Mr President - sung by Pink
- UPDATED
- with the VIDEO and the LYRICS
- Using
Music to Teach Social Studies : American History and Government
- with Sound clips
(songsforteaching.com)
- Music
history of the United States (Wikipedia)
1 American roots music
1.1 African American music
1.2 Appalachian folk music
1.3 Other forms of American roots music
2 Popular music
3 1940s and 1950s
3.1 Roots of country music
3.2 Gospel and doo wop
3.3 Latin music
3.4 Cajun and Creole music
4 1960s and 70s
4.1 Early 1960s
4.2 Psychedelic rock
4.3 Soul and funk
4.4 Country and folk
4.5 Tejano
5 1970s
5.1 Heavy metal
5.2 Outlaw country
5.3 Hip hop
5.4 Salsa
5.5 Punk rock
6 1980s and 90s
6.1 Hip hop
6.2 1990s
- Popular songs
in American history (contemplator.com)
- Protest
songs of the 60's webquest (milforded.org):
"Did the demonstrations,sit-ins, protests and music really change anything?"
-
America Rock - songs you can listen to (school-house-rock.com) :
No More Kings
Fireworks
The Shot Heard 'Round The World
The Preamble
Elbow Room
The Great American Melting Pot
Mother Necessity
Sufferin' Till Sufferage
I'm Just A Bill
Three-Ring Government
-
Elbow Room - a song you can listen to.
(school-house-rock.com)
- America by Neil Diamond (The American Dream)
- "We Didn't Start
the Fire" - The History Behind Billy Joel's Song (teacheroz)
- with the VIDEO
History presented (rareexception)
- Pocahontas
by Neil Young
- Route 23 by Steven Seagal - Songs from
the Crystal Cave
(hotlyrics.net)
"Alabama Mississippi Luisianna
Kentucky Texacana
I came to see what they could see
chasing their long tall tale 'bout the good life
we were told it was up route 23
black love
got from the coal mines
cancer from the steel"
Listen to the song. (YouTube)
- UPDATED
- Galveston
Bay by Bruce Springsteen :
"Fifteen years Le Bing Son
Fought side by side with the Americans
In the mountains and deltas of Vietnam..."
- I
Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag , a song
by Country Joe McDonald and the Fish (songfacts.com)
"This is a satire of US government attitudes toward the Vietnam War."
- Folk Songs about 9-11 (nwfolk.com)
- America , a song by Neil Diamond (The American Dream)