{"id":142,"date":"2023-04-25T11:59:45","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T15:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/criticalpedagogy\/?page_id=142"},"modified":"2023-04-25T11:59:45","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T15:59:45","slug":"glory-common-and-john-legend","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/criticalpedagogy\/educ323-infusion-of-music-hip-hop-blurbs\/glory-common-and-john-legend\/","title":{"rendered":"Glory – Common and John Legend"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sonia Lau<\/p>\n

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Lyrics:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

One day when the<\/span> glory<\/span><\/a> comes<\/span><\/p>\n

It will be ours, it will be ours<\/span><\/p>\n

Oh one day when the war is won<\/span><\/p>\n

We will be sure, we will be sure<\/span><\/p>\n

Oh<\/span> glory<\/span><\/a> (Glory, glory)<\/span><\/p>\n

Oh (Glory, glory)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Hands to the Heavens, no man, no weapon<\/span><\/p>\n

Formed against, yes<\/span> glory<\/span><\/a> is destined<\/span><\/p>\n

Every day<\/span> women<\/span><\/a> and men<\/span> become<\/span><\/a> legends<\/span><\/p>\n

Sins that go<\/span> against<\/span><\/a> our skin<\/span> become<\/span><\/a> blessings<\/span><\/p>\n

The<\/span> movement<\/span><\/a> is a<\/span> rhythm<\/span><\/a> to us<\/span><\/p>\n

Freedom is like<\/span> religion<\/span><\/a> to us<\/span><\/p>\n

Justice is juxtapositionin’ us<\/span><\/p>\n

Justice for all just ain’t<\/span> specific<\/span><\/a> enough<\/span><\/p>\n

One son died, his<\/span> spirit<\/span><\/a> is revisitin’ us<\/span><\/p>\n

Truant livin’ livin’ in us,<\/span> resistance<\/span><\/a> is us<\/span><\/p>\n

That’s why Rosa sat on the bus<\/span><\/p>\n

That’s why we walk<\/span> through<\/span><\/a> Ferguson with our<\/span> hands<\/span><\/a> up<\/span><\/p>\n

When it go down we<\/span> woman<\/span><\/a> and man up<\/span><\/p>\n

They say, “Stay down”, and we<\/span> stand<\/span><\/a> up<\/span><\/p>\n

Shots, we on the ground, the<\/span> camera<\/span><\/a> panned up<\/span><\/p>\n

King<\/span> pointed<\/span><\/a> to the<\/span> mountain<\/span><\/a> top and we ran up<\/span><\/p>\n

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One day when the<\/span> glory<\/span><\/a> comes<\/span><\/p>\n

It will be ours, it will be ours<\/span><\/p>\n

Oh one day when the war is won<\/span><\/p>\n

We will be sure, we will be sure<\/span><\/p>\n

Oh<\/span> glory<\/span><\/a> (Glory, glory)<\/span><\/p>\n

Oh (Glory, glory)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Now the war is not over,<\/span> victory<\/span><\/a> isn’t won<\/span><\/p>\n

And we’ll<\/span> fight<\/span><\/a> on to the finish, then when it’s all done<\/span><\/p>\n

We’ll cry glory, oh<\/span> glory<\/span><\/a> (Glory, glory)<\/span><\/p>\n

Oh (Glory, glory)<\/span><\/p>\n

We’ll cry glory, oh<\/span> glory<\/span><\/a> (Glory, glory)<\/span><\/p>\n

Oh (Glory, glory)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Selma’s now for<\/span> every<\/span><\/a> man,<\/span> woman<\/span><\/a> and child<\/span><\/p>\n

Even<\/span> Jesus<\/span><\/a> got his<\/span> crown<\/span><\/a> in<\/span> front<\/span><\/a> of a crowd<\/span><\/p>\n

They<\/span> marched<\/span><\/a> with the torch, we gon’ run with it now<\/span><\/p>\n

Never look back, we done gone<\/span> hundreds<\/span><\/a> of miles<\/span><\/p>\n

From dark<\/span> roads<\/span><\/a> he rose, to<\/span> become<\/span><\/a> a hero<\/span><\/p>\n

Facin’ the<\/span> league<\/span><\/a> of justice, his<\/span> power<\/span><\/a> was the people<\/span><\/p>\n

Enemy is lethal, a king<\/span> became<\/span><\/a> regal<\/span><\/p>\n

Saw the face of Jim Crow<\/span> under<\/span><\/a> a bald eagle<\/span><\/p>\n

The<\/span> biggest<\/span><\/a> weapon is to stay peaceful<\/span><\/p>\n

We sing, our<\/span> music<\/span><\/a> is the cuts that we<\/span> bleed<\/span><\/a> through<\/span><\/p>\n

Somewhere in the<\/span> dream<\/span><\/a> we had an epiphany<\/span><\/p>\n

Now we<\/span> right<\/span><\/a> the<\/span> wrongs<\/span><\/a> in history<\/span><\/p>\n

No one can win the war individually<\/span><\/p>\n

It<\/span> takes<\/span><\/a> the<\/span> wisdom<\/span><\/a> of the<\/span> elders<\/span><\/a> and<\/span> young<\/span><\/a> people’s energy<\/span><\/p>\n

Welcome to the<\/span> story<\/span><\/a> we call victory<\/span><\/p>\n

The comin’ of the Lord, my eyes have seen the glory<\/span><\/p>\n

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One day when the<\/span> glory<\/span><\/a> comes<\/span><\/p>\n

It will be ours, it will be ours<\/span><\/p>\n

Oh one day when the war is won<\/span><\/p>\n

We will be sure, we will be sure<\/span><\/p>\n

Oh<\/span> glory<\/span><\/a> (Glory, glory)<\/span><\/p>\n

Oh (Glory, glory)<\/span><\/p>\n

Oh<\/span> glory<\/span><\/a> (Glory, glory)<\/span><\/p>\n

Hey (Glory, glory)<\/span><\/p>\n

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When the war is won, when it’s all said and done<\/span><\/p>\n

We’ll cry<\/span> glory<\/span><\/a> (Glory, glory)<\/span><\/p>\n

Oh (Glory, glory)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Memo:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

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In order to use this piece of music to teach a class, there are several aspects that we can take into account. It is easy to take teaching music into a format of using it to teach English and a form of art for students to analyze. However, we can use hip hop as a resource to teach about social studies specifically being able to use hip hop as real life accounts that people include their experiences. The main goal of using this song to teach is to show students real historical events, people’s counterstories, and accurate representations of historical events rather than what we typically get in textbooks.<\/span><\/p>\n

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In order to connect it to social studies, a key part of this song choice are the lyrics and the part that \u2018Glory\u2019 has a huge significance is because that song is a song used in a movie called Selma which is a film about the Selma to Montgomery voting rights marches in 1965. The main person who helped get this march all together was done by James Bevel. The March was led by Martin Luther King Jr, John Lewis, and Hosea Williams. Beyond understanding the historical significance of the song and The March, I would task the students with going over lyrics together as a while and pick out what they feel is key or important in the song. Not only is the March the main historical key that inspired the song, but other historical events and important people such as Rosa Parks and Jim Crow as other examples.<\/span><\/p>\n

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As Stovall said \u201cInstead of proposing a script\u00a0 for effective teaching, the following tenets provide the necessary space for facilitators and students to build a productive environment centered\u201d, having several tenets that can be used to teach rather than just a singular script can use different methods to teach students similar concepts in more relevant ways.Stovall’s article \u201cCritical Race Theory, Praxis, and the Creation of Productive Space\u201d speaks about different methods of educating students, specifically one that sticks out are their counterstories. Although hip hop and lyrics aren\u2019t as typical as regular stories, hip hop and songs are a form of counterstories as they come from people\u2019s experiences which is where they get their lyrics from. The key tenet that this class assignment links to is \u201cb) Students apprenticed in a learning community rather than taught in an isolated and unrelated way and \u201c(e) Teachers and students engage in a collective struggle against the status quo.\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Another author that we analyzed in class was James A. Banks\u2019s \u201cApproaches to Multicultural Curriculum Reform\u201d, Banks discusses how within the United States that there is a big range of racial and ethnic backgrounds. The key as to why using lyrics is a more positive way of expressing people\u2019s counterstories. Bank says \u201cA mainstream-centric curriculum also denies mainstream U.S. students the opportunity to view their culture from the perspectives of other cultures and groups.\u201d It allows us to understand that we need a bigger variation in curriculum and a wider diversity and representation for more students to learn about themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Works Cited<\/b><\/p>\n

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James A. Banks & Cherry McGee Banks. (n.d.). <\/span>Multicultural education: Issues and perspectives<\/span><\/i> (4th ed.). John Wiley & Sons.<\/span><\/p>\n

Selma to montgomery: 50 years later<\/span><\/i>. (n.d.). The White House. Retrieved 16 March 2023, from <\/span>https:\/\/obamawhitehouse.archives.gov\/node\/324821<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Stovall, D. (2006). We can relate: Hip-hop culture, critical pedagogy, and the secondary classroom. <\/span>Urban Education<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>41<\/span><\/i>(6), 585\u2013602. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/0042085906292513<\/span><\/p>\n

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