Louise Haynes

Social Issues in Song

Learning about history and songs and the people who made both

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Victor Jara was born in Chile in 1932. He grew up poor. His mother was a folk singer and his father was a farmer.

As an adult, Victor studied ...

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I’m reading a book at the moment, Life Under a Cloud: American Anxiety about the atom, by Allan M. Winkler. He tells the story of how the first atomic ...

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Maybe you are polishing your skills in order to get a better score on TOEIC or a higher level of Eiken, CEFR, or TOEFL.

Maybe you don’t need ...

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The song is a story about two individuals and the humanity and compassion that one showed to the other.

It begins by introducing Chiune (Sempo) ...

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The song is called A Hole in the Ground. It was written and sung by Tom Parrott in 1968.

The song is based on a true story that Parrott ...

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My Country 'tis of Thy People You’re Dying, was written by Buffy St. Marie in 1966. Buffy St. Marie is an Indigenous Canadian-American musician ...

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How people expressed grief at a time when it was illegal to do so

The song this week is a song from Spain, 1941. You can read ...