Lessons for Hight School Music Classes: Lesson 2

Art and music have been vehicles for statements of civil unrest for hundreds of years. Upper graders critically analyze several pop songs or music movements from the 1980s that exemplify politically charged motives. They analyze lyrics that were written purposefully as protest, and lyrics whose meanings changed as they were used by specific groups or for a specific reason. They engage in a class discussion and write a short paper on a single song.