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Protest Songs
Lyrical evaluation
Task
• Choose one of the songs on the handout (urls follow)
• Complete the worksheet by answering the questions as fully as possible
• Research terms and ideas contained in the lyrics to add additional information to your answers
• Submit the work at the end of the lesson
Song url’s• Country Joe McDonald at Woodstock. http
://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs4s7LrAuMo• Red Gum I Was Only Nineteen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Urtiyp-G6jY • Eric Bogle And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG48Ftsr3OI• Turn Turn Turn the Byrds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUT4QpHcWGI ; • What’s Goin On Marvin Gaye
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph0aELhsQoc, • Khe Sanh Cold Chisel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfDI2ZjXwK8; • Sympathy for the Devil The Rolling Stones
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBecM3CQVD8
Authorship: Is there a perceptible level of emotion involved in the piece? Does the piece automatically pull the listener into the music?
Intent/message: Is the piece thought-provoking? Does it encourage the listener to contemplate its message, or is it simply background music?
Subject: What is the lyricist describing? What is the plot underlying the account? List three places or things the author mentions.
Conclusion: How might this song have contributed to the debate over the war? How might it have changed the way people thought? Who might it have influenced?