1. Music and its Roots in Voodoo
(Teacher Resources/Music History)

...ual. These songs were part of the everyday lives of the negroes who were brought to the New World on the slave ships - and they were steeped in magic and voodoo. If we were to trace back to the or...

2. The Importance of Fine Arts in the Classroom
(Teacher Resources/Advocacy)

...erghoff, 2003, p. 2). The study was based on teaching a history lesson unit on Freedom and Slavery through the arts. Ms. Bixler-Borgmann had her students listen to the song “Swing ...

3. Amazing Grace- Free Sheet Music
(Teacher Resources/Sheet Music)

...used in many ways over the last two hundred years since its composition in 1772 by John Newton, a former slave trader who had converted to Christianity. It has always been seen as a somber, Christian...

4. Battle Hymn Of The Republic Concert Band Score- Free Sheet Music
(Teacher Resources/Sheet Music)

... the mighty, He is Succour to the brave, So the world shall be His footstool, and the soul of Time His slave, Our God is marching on. Chorus ...

5. The Star Spangled Banner- Free Sheet Music
(Teacher Resources/Sheet Music)

...heir blood has washed out their foul footstep’s pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave, And the star-spangled banner in...