This week saw the end of the school year and the end of my teaching. My credential came through on Friday...it's done. Like all scholastics however, there could be no end without finals: one culminating exam covering the entirety of the semester.
Tonight, I offer a study guide. This is a show dedicated to my students, wrapping up one last time US and World History beginning with World War I and working through The Cold War.
Tonight I plan on either making history interesting or making music boring...my career depends on the result. I hope you enjoy.
Playlist
Mos Def (Ft. Talib Kweli) - History
World War I
The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Franz Ferdinand - 40 Ft
The Christmas Truce
Ramones - Merry Christmas (I Don't Want To Fight Tonight)
The Sinking of The Lusitania
The Magnetic Fields - From A Sinking Boat
The Russian Revolution
Beat Happening - Revolution Come and Gone
War Ends/Treaty of Versailles
Phoenix - Armistice
The Jazz Age
Jazz Music
Louis Armstrong - Gut Bucket Blues
The Harlem Renaissance
Duke Ellington - Harlemania
Modern Art
Art Brut - Modern Art
Gertrude Stein
The Olivia Tremor Control - Define A Transparent Dream
Woody Allen - The Lost Generation
The Great Depression
Crop Burning To Raise Crop Prices
Randy Newman - Let's Burn Down The Cornfield
The Dust Bowl
Woody Guthrie - End Of The Line
Hobos
Hank Williams - Ramblin' Man (As Luke The Drifter)
The Rise of Totalitarianism
Dead Kennedys - California Uber Alles
The Holocaust
Serge Gainsbourg - Nazi Rock
Neutral Milk Hotel - Holland 1945
The Nazi Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
Lansing-Dreiden - A Silent Agreement
The Invasion of Poland
Joy Division - Warsaw
World War II
The Battle of Britain
Iron Maiden - Aces High (With intro by Winston Churchill)
Rosie The Riveter
The Four Vagabonds - Rosie The Riveter
Gang of Four - It's Her Factory
Storming Normandy
Jane's Addiction - Up The Beach
Hitler's Last Days
Beirut - The Bunker
Elton John - I Think I'm Going To Kill Myself
The Bomb
Flower Travellin' Band - Hiroshima
The Cold War
William Burroughs - No More Stalins, No More Hitlers
A Divided Germany
David Bowie - Red Sails
Red China
Claudes Channes - Mao Mao (From Goddard's "La Chinoise")
The Red Scare
Van Dyke Parks - G-Man Hoover
R.E.M. - Exhuming McCarthy
Vietnam
Minutemen - Viet Nam
Jimmy Cliff - Viet Nam
Final Thought
Captain Beefheart - The Past Sure Is Tense
