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Your text discusses songs that came to be associated with the Civil War in America. Make a list of tunes that were associated with wars in the twentieth century (the Vietnam War, for example). How do the sentiments expressed in the songs compare with those of Civil War times? |
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Read Stephen Foster's famous letter of May 25, 1852 to E. P. Christy (reprinted in To Stretch Our Ears: A Documentary of America's Music, edited by J. Heywood Alexander). What does this letter tell you about Foster's opinion of what he calls the "Ethiopian business"? |
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Find the original words to Stephen Foster's "My Old Kentucky Home" and compare them with the words that are currently sung today. What changes have been made? Why? |
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Do some research on state songs in the United States. Read (or listen to) the lyrics of several state songs: does there seem to be a common theme? |
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