Freedom Songs: A Resource for Teachers by Teachers

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Chapters:
Chapter 1. A Young Immigrant Wakes Up to the DREAM
Chapter 2. Letting the Light Shine: A Spiritual Call to Action
Chapter 3. Freedom from Nuclear Destruction
Chapter 4. Moving across Borders with a Human Rights Anthem
Chapter 5. A Protest Song throughout the Decades
Chapter 6. Freedom Imagined: The U.S. Civil Rights Movement
Chapter 7. The Dream: To End All Wars
Chapter 8. Delight in Loving Yourself
Chapter 9. On the Streets: A Song about Tanzanian Street Children
Chapter 10. Blackbird Fly: To be Free
Chapter 11. Glory: Teaching Figurative Language through a Contemporary Freedom Song
Chapter 12. Strange Fruit: Raising Students’ Awareness of Racism through Song
Chapter 13. Intrapersonal Peace for Interpersonal Peace
Chapter 14. Seeking Humanity in Each Other through Hip-hop
Chapter 15. Choo Choo: Laying the Tracks on the Backs of Chinese Workers
Chapter 16. Freedom in the Balance: What’s the Hope for the Future?
Chapter 17. My Imaginary Presidency
Chapter 18. Rhythms of Freedom: From Benin to Haiti
Chapter 19. Lina, Get Up and Rise!
Chapter 20. Lina’s Resurrection
Chapter 21. A Stone Eating Mele from Hawai‘i
Chapter 22. Freedom of Thought
Chapter 23. Soaring to Peace from the Depths of War
Chapter 24. Listening to Okinawan Music with Your Heart
Chapter 25. A Child in Gaza: The World is Watching Jerusalem
Chapter 26. Cry for the Hawai’i that was Taken Away

Music affords students of all language backgrounds, ages, and levels of proficiency a way to explore global awareness and cross barriers of ethnicity, religion, race, gender, social class, and other dimensions of difference. This book offers many ways in which music can be a tool for English language learning, language arts and literacy, as well as cross-cultural understanding and peace. Freedom Songs is international in scope and experiential in nature. It exemplifies the power of music to transform language learning, promote peace and foster intercultural understanding.