{"id":40,"date":"2014-08-15T22:19:49","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T22:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sharonroffman.com\/prinzproject\/?page_id=40"},"modified":"2019-09-12T10:21:31","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T10:21:31","slug":"music-at-the-march-on-washington","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/sharonroffman.com\/prinzproject\/music-and-literature\/music-at-the-march-on-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"Music at the March on Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Music was a vital part of the Civil Rights Movement.\u00a0 Whereas the music of the Holocaust prisoners stayed mostly with the confines of the camp walls and was an internal method of coping with their surroundings and maintaining their humanity, the music of the civil rights movement was this and more: a universal language that communicated emotions and frustrations, transcended words, spoke directly to the heart, affirmed the commonality of the human spirit, and united people of all races and religions.<\/p>\n<p>At the March on Washington, musical performances were interspersed between the speeches.\u00a0 These were some of the artists presented:<\/p>\n<div class=\"wc-shortcodes-row wc-shortcodes-item wc-shortcodes-clearfix\">\n<div class=\"wc-shortcodes-column wc-shortcodes-content wc-shortcodes-one-third wc-shortcodes-column-first \">Mahalia Jackson: \u201cHow I Got Over\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.spotify.com\/?uri=spotify:track:1o5Tx4yMyG0GaB3EngVfqZ\" width=\"300\" height=\"100\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Bob Dylan: \u201cWhen the Ship Comes In\u201d (with Baez)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.spotify.com\/?uri=spotify:track:7hMhO4oenpVkVaM5bNkEbz\" width=\"300\" height=\"100\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Freedom Singers \u201cWe Shall Overcome\u201d with Baez; Dylan; Peter, Paul and Mary, and Theodore Bikel.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.spotify.com\/?uri=spotify:track:4wpYy3W2wkQmDxCEFUE23H\" width=\"300\" height=\"100\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"wc-shortcodes-row wc-shortcodes-item wc-shortcodes-clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"wc-shortcodes-column wc-shortcodes-content wc-shortcodes-one-third wc-shortcodes-column-first \"><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0Unknown Artist (Marian Anderson): &#8220;Deep River&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.spotify.com\/?uri=spotify:track:4GjGERtbwIar3ys4KqeA6g\" width=\"300\" height=\"100\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wc-shortcodes-column wc-shortcodes-content wc-shortcodes-one-third wc-shortcodes-column- \">\n<p>Bob Dylan: \u201cOnly A Pawn In Their Game\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.spotify.com\/?uri=spotify:track:6lib77q4koq52srysevRfT\" width=\"300\" height=\"100\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Pete Seeger\u2019s \u201cIf I Had a Hammer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.spotify.com\/?uri=spotify:track:0LQb14wtNOmlcEpQkfnYX7\" width=\"300\" height=\"100\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Various Artists \u2013 Sing For Freedom: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement Through Its Songs<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.spotify.com\/?uri=spotify:album:1zpgiafncHNnCWAZ32QJOM\" width=\"300\" height=\"100\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wc-shortcodes-column wc-shortcodes-content wc-shortcodes-one-third wc-shortcodes-column-last \">\n<p>Joan Baez: \u201cWe Shall Overcome\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.spotify.com\/?uri=spotify:track:3wrvRPoEchDZk2476g7bag\" width=\"300\" height=\"100\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Odetta: \u201cOh Freedom \u201c<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.spotify.com\/?uri=spotify:track:22QPcTSjkLRpQwhjfLZwFD\" width=\"300\" height=\"100\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Mahalia Jackson<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.spotify.com\/?uri=spotify:track:2wI980MZn77b98bRbXjr3u\" width=\"300\" height=\"100\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>A compilation of all the available video of musical performances from the March on Washington.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wc-responsive-video wc-rv-id-https-www-youtube-com-watchv10i6htdjnwe wc-rv-post-40 wc-rv-ratio-4-3\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"keep your eyes on the prize, hold on\" width=\"1020\" height=\"765\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/10I6HtdJnWE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/prezi.com\/embed\/tjv-ngkuvsby\/?bgcolor=ffffff&amp;lock_to_path=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;autohide_ctrls=0&amp;features=undefined&amp;disabled_features=undefined&amp;html5=1\" width=\"1020\" height=\"800\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his relationship with Music<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 20px;\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.spotify.com\/?uri=spotify:track:70TI9J2rsGIuXyFqVzOswh\" width=\"300\" height=\"100\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr was surrounded by music from birth; as a child he played the violin and his mother gave him piano lessons, (later in life he would sit at the piano and play Beethoven\u2019s Piano Sonata No. 14 \u201cMoonlight\u201d claiming it was the only piece he remembered how to play.)[1]\u00a0 His wife, Coretta Scott King, was an opera singer, violin and trumpet player; they met when she was a student at the New England Conservatory.<\/p>\n<p>As a 10 year old, Dr. King heard Marian Anderson, a black opera singer, on the radio. Ms. Anderson had been banned from singing at Constitution Hall in Washington DC because of her race.\u00a0 In protest, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt helped organize a performance by Ms. Anderson at the Lincoln Memorial on Easter Sunday for an audience of 75,000 people and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/history\/four-years-after-marian-anderson-sang-lincoln-memorial-dr-finally-allowed-her-perform-constitution-hall-180950468\/?no-ist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a live radio broadcast<\/a>.\u00a0This concert had a profound effect on Dr. King; <a href=\"https:\/\/kinginstitute.stanford.edu\/king-papers\/documents\/negro-and-constitution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he referenced it a few years later in a high school oration<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. King was moved by many different styles and genres of music.\u00a0 According to historian Taylor Branch, one of his favorite operas was <em>Lucia di Lammermoor<\/em> by Gaetano Donizetti.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wc-responsive-video wc-rv-id-https-www-youtube-com-watchvznokrsu8v9m wc-rv-post-40 wc-rv-ratio-4-3\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR - GAETANO DONIZETTI - 2006\" width=\"1020\" height=\"765\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZnOkrsu8V9M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>He also loved German baroque composer George Frideric Handel\u2019s Oratorio <em>Messiah<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"wc-responsive-video wc-rv-id-https-www-youtube-com-watchviuzetvbjt5c wc-rv-post-40 wc-rv-ratio-16-9\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Royal Choral Society: &#039;Hallelujah Chorus&#039; from Handel&#039;s Messiah\" width=\"1020\" height=\"574\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IUZEtVbJT5c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>and quoted the text of the Hallelujah chorus in <a href=\"http:\/\/mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu\/primarydocuments\/Vol4\/17-Nov-1957_LovingYourEnemies.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a 1957 Speech entitled \u201cLoving Your Enemies\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One of Dr.\u00a0King\u2019s favorite songs was <em>Precious Lord Take my Hand.\u00a0 <\/em>He often invited singer Mahalia Jackson to sing it at civil rights rallies.\u00a0 She also sang it at his funeral.\u00a0 Thomas Dorsey, one of the founding fathers of gospel music, wrote Precious Lord after the death of his wife and baby son.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=as1rsZenwNc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mahalia Jackson singing Precious Lord Take My Hand.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the most famous and emblematic songs of the Civil Rights Movement was <em>We Shall Overcome. <\/em>In April 1960, at the Highlander Folk Center, folk singer Guy Carawan taught <em>We Shall Overcome<\/em> to college students and members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the song took on a life of its own.\u00a0 In this video, Guy and his wife Candie discuss their life and role in the civil rights movement. \u00a0(Warning, the sound isn&#8217;t great on this video, use headphones for best listening!)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wc-responsive-video wc-rv-id-https-www-youtube-com-watchvsd4giyfzlas wc-rv-post-40 wc-rv-ratio-16-9\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Civil Rights History Project: Candie Carawan and Guy Hughes Carawan\" width=\"1020\" height=\"574\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sd4giyfZLAs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><strong>Activities\/Discussion\/Research:<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><a title=\"Activities\/Discussion\" href=\"http:\/\/sharonroffman.com\/prinzproject\/music-and-literature\/music-at-the-march-on-washington\/march-activitiesdiscussion\/\">Click here to go to the Activities\/Discussion\/Research page.<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Additional Resources with Audio and Video:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #ca3c08;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/culture-desk\/dream-songs-the-music-of-the-march-on-washington\">http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/culture-desk\/dream-songs-the-music-of-the-march-on-washington<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #ca3c08;\" href=\"http:\/\/dissenter.firedoglake.com\/2013\/08\/28\/fifty-years-ago-the-music-of-the-march-on-washington-demonstration\/\">http:\/\/dissenter.firedoglake.com\/2013\/08\/28\/fifty-years-ago-the-music-of-the-march-on-washington-demonstration\/#<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #ca3c08;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/life\/music\/2013\/08\/27\/songs-tied-to-the-1963-great-march-on-washington\/2703773\/\">http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/life\/music\/2013\/08\/27\/songs-tied-to-the-1963-great-march-on-washington\/2703773\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[1] Branch, Taylor <em>Parting the Waters <\/em>Simon and Schuster New York, 1998 pg 54<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Music was a vital part of the Civil Rights Movement.\u00a0 Whereas the music of the Holocaust prisoners stayed mostly with the confines of the camp walls and was an internal method of coping with their surroundings and maintaining their humanity, the music of the civil rights movement was this and more: a universal language that&hellip; 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