Stevenson and the song “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll” by Bob Dylan discuss the inequality of the law based on the color of one’s skin. Stevenson argues that people of color and poverty often receive harsher treatment than white people for the same crime,
implies that a black woman’s life is worth just six months of a white man’s. After reading about the death in the newspapers, Bob Dylan wrote “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll.” He makes a few minor errors in the facts of the case. First, he misspells Zantzinger’s name as “Zanzinger,” and he also describes Hattie Carroll as a mother of ten rather than eleven. As another example, he calls Carroll a “maid of the kitchen” whose primary job was cleaning, while her actual job as barmaid revolved more
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The second type of appeal was the ethical appeal, ethos. “In this mode of persuasion the individual seeks to relate to the audiences by presenting him or herself as a person with high morals and human dignity” (Bailey, 2006). Therefore, there was only really one protest song that I and many other CSU students felt fell into this category, which was Berry McGuire’s, “Eve of Destruction.” The song focuses predominately on an appeal which I think made it easier for myself and other listeners to relate
THE MAJOR ESSAY (30%) The singer/songwriter Bob Dylan is known worldwide for his exceptional songs, mostly his protest songs. His fans have loved his protest songs like “The Death of Emmett Till”, “Oxford Town”, The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll” etc. At some point, Bob Dylan decided to change his style and starting to sing and write his songs in a different way, his answer “ My songs have always been about protest”. Even though “Desolation Row”, “Simple Twist of Fate” and “Forgetful Heart”
events were usually focused on a smaller population (i.e. Swing low, Sweet Chariot for slaves1 and We Shall over Come for African American civil rights). Folk singers had become active in the civil rights movement with songs like “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll” by Bob Dylan and “Birmingham Sunday” by Joan Baez.2 The Vietnam War affected the masses and music became a method to unite the public and express disapproval to America’s involvement in Vietnam. Bob Dylan released
In the 1960’s, protest songs were more popular than the protest songs of previous decades. While political music existed before the 1960’s, these protest songs often appealed to only small groups within society. For this reason, much of this protest music, especially that regarding the labor movement, did not reach the widespread popularity that protest songs enjoyed during the sixties. The example by Pete Seeger as mentioned before was really only designed to be an anthem for union members. As a
The words “civil rights” trigger a sense in the human mind. One of remorse, passion, and hope in a cause worth fighting for. Those weathered by its raging storms refer to it as a turning point in American life after over a century under segregation that can only be described as a necessary silence that African Americans were forced to take on the matter. However, the human mind found itself a way to express those feelings that flowed from its veins. That expression of power and revolt was music.
The evolution of popular music themes in the black freedom struggle parallel the evolution of the movement itself. There is no American social movement of the 20th century more closely connected to music than the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 60s. The movement was a national effort made by African Americans and their supporters to eliminate racial segregation and secure citizenship rights specified in the constitution. African Americans wanted and were fighting to have the same rights