Music Flashcards
How to Make Gravy
Paul Kelly (pop)
Christmas- themed song for Salvation Army
Draws inspiration from White Christmas
Father in prison making gravy for the family (misses them), addressed to the brother, wishes he could go back for Christmas
Upbeat, major key.
Folsom Prison Blues
Johnny Cash (country)
Inspired by film Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison
Contrast between austerity of prison and movement, life outside
Major, upbeat tune
Laura Palmer
Bastille (Indie pop)
From tv series Twin Peaks
Laura who leads a double life- seemingly perfect girl, yet is a cocaine addict, abusive parents
Refrain: “Can you feel it? Can you feel it?”
Minor+major, upbeat
Liberty Needs Glasses
2Pac (Tupac Shakur)
Poetry reading with beats in the background
Liberty and justice are blinded
Mandela and Mutulu captured, Oliver North (American politician who sold US weapons to Iran to release hostages— weapons used for terrorists in the end) not captured
Ronnie – President Reagan (war on drugs, targeting blacks and bombed Libya)
Negro y Azul
Soundtrack of Breaking Bad
Negro y Azul–(Black and Blue)
Refers to Colour of bruises and colours of Heisenberg–big boss (black) and Blue Sky (meth)
Schindler’s List (main theme)
John Williams
Composed soundtracks for Star Wars, Jurassic Park, Harry Potter (first 3)
Schindler’s list: historical drama (based on Oskar Schindler, German businessman who saved more than a thousand Polish-Jewish refugees)
Consists of many violin solos
Minor, sad tune
Glory
Common& John Legend
Theme song of Selma (portrays the 1965 voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery– Martin Luther King Junior)
Refers to the Rosa Parks bus incident – refused to give up seat under unfair segregation laws
Police brutality in Ferguson
Proud of Your Boy
Aladdin soundtrack
Movie soundtrack
Aladdin acknowledges his bad ways, promises he will make up to his Mother
Born This Way
Glee Cast Recording (Lady (Gaga)
Epilogue
Les Misérables
