Examples of Student-Selected Song Titles and Artists that Reflect Transcendental Thinking

Oldies/Classics Pop/Rock R&B/Rap New Age/Classical Country

Otis Redding: : R. Kelly: Enya: Dixie Chicks: “Sitting on the “Respect “I Believe I Can “Sail Away” “Wide Open Dock of the Bay” Yourself” Fly” Cranberries: “Copy Spaces” Louis : Tupac Shakur: Cat” Lee Ann Armstrong: “Hero” “Keep Ya Head Tim Janis: “Water’s Womack:“I “What a Wonderful Dave Matthews Up” Edge” Hope You World” Band: Destiny’s Vivaldi: Dance” Billy Joel: “Cry Freedom” Child: “Four Seasons” Billy Gilman: “Just the Way You U2: “Survivor” Yanni: “Hero” Are” “Beautiful Day” Desiree: “Rain Must Fall” Garth Brooks: Frank Sinatra: Van Halen: “You Gotta Be” Handel: “The River” and “My Way” “Dreams” Jennifer “Water Music Suite, “We Shall Be Grateful Dead: Creed: Lopez: “I’m No.2 for orchestra in D Free” “Liberty” “Higher” Real” major” Norman Blake: Bob Marley: Dido: Janet Jackson: Modest Mussorgsky: “You Are My “Get Up, Stand “My Life” “Clouds” “Night on Bald Sunshine” Up” Jewel: India Arie: Mountain, A, for Martina Beatles: “Hands” “Video” orchestra” McBride: “Here Comes the Backstreet Jermaine “Independence Sun” Boys: “Shining Jackson: Day” Bob Dylan: Star” “Rise to the Trisha “Blowin’ in the : Occasion” Yearwood: Wind” “My Life” En Vogue: “Real Live Joni Mitchell: Vanessa “Free Your Mind” Woman” “Big Yellow Taxi” Williams: Tim McGraw: Three Dog “Colors of the “Place in the Night: “Joy to the Wind” Sun” and “Don’t World” Michael Take the Girl” Jackson: “Earth Jo Dee Song” Messina: Whitney “Burn” Houston: “One Rascal Flatts: Moment in Time” “Prayin’ for Sting: Daylight” and “Fields of Gold” “What Hurts the Alanis Most” Morisette: Keith Urban: “Ironic” “Tonight I Jack Johnson: Wanna Cry” “Anything But Taylor Swift: The Truth” “Teardrops on Lindsay Lohan: My Guitar” and “Drama Queen “Love Story” (That Girl)” : “Far Away” Tracy Chapman: “Fast Car” Daniel Powter: “Bad Day” : “Love Game” This table was adapted from: Ruggieri, Colleen A. "Multigenre, Multiple Intelligences, and Transcendentalism." English Journal 92.9 (November 2002): 60-68.