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SOUND BITES BIG IDEAS IN POPULAR MUSIC Reference List SOUND BITES BIG IDEAS IN POPULAR MUSIC Reference List Don’t You Wonder, Sometimes? 4 Tracy K. Smith Voice and Hammer: Harry Belafonte’s Unfinished Fight (selection) 5 Jeff Sharlet Lush Life 8 John McCluskey Jr. Electronic Dance Music’s Love Affair with Ecstasy: A History (selection) 9 Nash Jenkins Bop 11 Langston Hughes I Am Your Conscious, I Am Love: A Paean 2 Prince 12 Hilton Als Amor Prohibido (selection) 15 Jeff Winkler Thieves in the Night 17 Dante Smith, Talib Kweli Greene, and Charles Njapa Bowie (selection) 18 Simon Critchley When Whitney Hit the High Note 20 Danyel Smith Black Flag 23 John Albert Millie Jackson’s Country Roots 24 Jalylah Burrell The contents of this packet include proprietary trademarks and copyrighted materials, and may be used or quoted only with permission and appropriate credit to the Great Books Foundation. SOUND BITES Beatlemania: A Love Story 26 Devin McKinney Sonny’s Blues 27 James Baldwin A Poem for Ella Fitzgerald 28 Sonia Sanchez Elvis Presley (selection) 29 Bobbie Ann Mason Star Child (selection) 31 Margo Jefferson When Johnny Cash Visited Leavenworth 33 Albert Nussbaum Soul Survivor 34 David Remnick Because My Father Always Said He Was the Only Indian Who Saw Jimi Hendrix Play “The Star-Spangled Banner” at Woodstock 39 Sherman Alexie Why the Shirelles Mattered 40 Susan J. Douglas Earbud 42 Bill Holm Salsa y La Naturaleza: How a Willie Colón Song Taught Me About Queerness and Love 43 Gabby Rivera Brainworms, Sticky Music, and Catchy Tunes 44 Oliver Sacks Reluctant Exegesis: “(I Bless the Rains Down in) Africa” 45 Steve Almond Good Citations: The Rise of the Rock Curator (selection) 46 Simon Reynolds Beginning to See the Light 52 Ellen Willis Old Records Never Die: One Man’s Quest for His Vinyl and His Past (selection) 54 Eric Spitznagel Just a Little Bit: Loudness 57 Ben Ratliff Let’s Talk About Love 60 Carl Wilson Copyright © 2018 The Copyright Great © 2018 Books Foundation – 3 – SOUND BITES Don’t You Wonder, Sometimes? Tracy K. Smith “Bleed Like a Craze, Dad,” song David Bowie, actor, singer, musician, and songwriter Copyright © 2018 The Copyright Great © 2018 Books Foundation – 4 – SOUND BITES Voice and Hammer: Harry Belafonte’s Unfinished Fight (selection) Jeff Sharlet Abyssinian Baptist, church in New York City Robert Altman, director, producer, and screenwriter Amos ’n’ Andy, radio and television show Apollo Theater, venue in New York City Joan Baez, musician and songwriter George Balanchine, choreographer and cofounder of the New York City Ballet company “Bald-Headed Woman,” song Bamboozled, film “The Banana Boat Song,” song Harry Belafonte, actor, civil rights activist, singer, and songwriter Julie Belafonte, wife of Harry Belafonte Leon Bibb, singer Willie Blue, civil rights activist Marlon Brando, actor, civil rights activist, and director Barbara Britton, actor Calypso, album recorded by Harry Belafonte Carmen Jones, film Diahann Carroll, actor and singer Cavalcade of Stars, television show CBS News, news program on the television network CBS Bull Connor, Commissioner of Public Safety for Birmingham, Alabama James Ellroy, writer The Emperor Jones, play by Eugene O’Neill and film Henry Fonda, actor and producer Aretha Franklin, singer and songwriter Freedom Riders, civil rights organization Jackie Gleason, actor, comedian, and musician Danny Glover, activist, actor, and director Woody Guthrie, musician, singer, and songwriter Harvey’s Bristol Cream, brand of sherry “Hold ’Em Joe,” song Lena Horne, singer “How Long, Not Long,” speech by Martin Luther King Jr. “In That Great Gettin’ Up Morning,” song The Copyright Great © 2018 Books Foundation – 5 – SOUND BITES Voice and Hammer: Harry Belafonte’s Unfinished Fight (selection),continued Izod, brand of clothing Norman Jewison, director “John Henry,” song “Jump in the Line,” song June Taylor Dancers John F. Kennedy, thirty-fifth president of the United States Robert Kennedy, US attorney general and US senator Coretta Scott King, civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights activist, minister, and writer King of Calypso, nickname for Harry Belafonte Ku Klux Klan, white supremacist group Leadbelly [Huddie Ledbetter], musician, singer, and songwriter Spike Lee, actor, director, producer, and screenwriter Life, magazine Lilies of the Field, film March on Washington, 1963 civil rights protest Willie Mays, baseball player Brownie McGhee, musician “Michael, Row Your Boat Ashore,” song “Mo Yet,” song My Song, memoir by Harry Belafonte NBC, television network Odds Against Tomorrow, film Odetta [Holmes], singer Oscars [Academy Awards] Othello, play by William Shakespeare and film Peter, Paul and Mary, musical group Sidney Poitier, actor, director, and writer Porgy and Bess, musical and film Porsche, make of car A Prairie Home Companion, radio show and film Elvis Presley, actor, musician, singer, and songwriter Elvis Presley, album by Elvis Presley “Puff the Magic Dragon,” song Revlon, brand of cosmetics Charlie Revson, Revlon executive Paul Robeson, actor, civil rights activist, and singer Pete Seeger, musician, singer, and songwriter Selma to Montgomery March, 1965 civil rights protest The Copyright Great © 2018 Books Foundation – 6 – SOUND BITES Voice and Hammer: Harry Belafonte’s Unfinished Fight (selection),continued Shaft, film Showboat, musical and film Frank Sinatra, singer 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, 1963 terrorist act in Birmingham, Alabama Southern Christian Leadership Council, civil rights organization Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, civil rights organization “Sylvie,” song Sonny Terry, musician The Tonight Show, television show Tonight with Belafonte, television show Tony Awards To Sir, With Love, film Mary Travers, singer and songwriter George Wallace, governor of Alabama “The Walls of Jericho,” song “Waterboy,” song Zane Grey Theater, television show Copyright © 2018 The Copyright Great © 2018 Books Foundation – 7 – SOUND BITES Lush Life John McCluskey Jr. Buick Dynaflow, make and model of car Burma Shave rhymes, advertising jingles for a brand of shaving cream Majestic Hotel, hotel in Cleveland, Ohio “One O’Clock Jump,” song “Take the A Train,” song “Tea for Two,” song Copyright © 2018 The Copyright Great © 2018 Books Foundation – 8 – SOUND BITES Electronic Dance Music’s Love Affair with Ecstasy: A History (selection) Nash Jenkins Tim Bergling [Avicii], DJ, musician, and producer Billboard, magazine Bud Light Platinum, brand and type of beer John Cassidy, writer Clusterbusters Conference, annual meeting about the use of hallucinogenic drugs to treat headaches Cold War Consequence of Sound, website Day-Glo, brand of fluorescent paint deadmau5, composer, DJ, musician, and producer Dirty South hip-hop, music genre Rick Doblin, founder of the Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) Drugfree.org, antidrug organization Electric Zoo, New York City music festival founded in 2009 4x4=12, album by deadmau5 David Guetta, DJ, producer, and songwriter John H. Halpern, medical doctor and professor of psychiatry Hell’s Angels, motorcycle gang HIV [human immunodeficiency virus], cause of AIDS house music, electronic music genre pioneered in Chicago Meredith Hunter, eighteen-year-old man murdered at the 1969 Altamont Speedway Free Festival in Northern California Ibiza, one of the Balearic Islands of Spain Timothy Leary, psychologist and writer who promoted LSD use “Levels,” song by Avicii LSD [lysergic acid diethylamide], psychedelic drug “Molly,” nickname for the drug ecstasy [MDMA] “Peace, Love, Unity, and Respect” [PLUR], electronic dance music slogan rave, large dance party “rolling,” nickname for the high produced by MDMA Olivia Rotondo, twenty-year-old woman who died of an overdose at the 2013 Electric Zoo festival Douglas Rushkoff, critic and writer Jeffrey Russ, twenty-three-year-old man who died of an overdose at the 2013 Electric Zoo festival Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, rabbi active in Jewish Renewal movement The Copyright Great © 2018 Books Foundation – 9 – SOUND BITES Electronic Dance Music’s Love Affair with Ecstasy: A History (selection), continued September 11 attacks, 2001 terrorist act against New York City and Washington, DC Alexander “Sasha” Shulgin, pharmacologist Sirius XM, satellite radio network Slate, magazine “Summer of Love,” nickname for summer 1967, especially in San Francisco Super Bowl, National Football League championship game Theseus, mythical king and founder of Athens, Greece Tiësto, DJ and producer Tylenol, brand of the pain reliever acetaminophen Ultra Music Festival, Miami music festival founded in 2001 Warehouse, dance club in Chicago “We Can’t Stop,” song recorded by Miley Cyrus “Why MDMA Is Destroying EDM,” article by music promoter Derek Staples Winter Music Conference, electronic dance music event in Miami Woodstock Music & Art Fair, 1969 festival held in New York Copyright © 2018 The Copyright Great © 2018 Books Foundation – 10 – SOUND BITES Bop Langston Hughes Cab Calloway, bandleader and singer Tadd Dameron, composer and musician Dizzy Gillespie, bandleader, composer, musician, and singer Thelonious Monk, composer and musician Charlie Parker, composer and musician Mary Lou [Williams], composer and musician Copyright © 2018 The Copyright Great © 2018 Books Foundation – 11 – SOUND BITES I Am Your Conscious, I Am Love: A Paean 2 Prince Hilton Als Michele Anthony, music executive Any Given Sunday, film Around the World in a Day, album by Prince James Baldwin, critic and writer Sandra Bernhard,