Sort by
Causes and Controversies
|
Political Songs
Anti-Slavery Songs
William W. Brown, comp. The Anti-Slavery Harp: A Collection of Songs for Anti-Slavery Meetings. Boston: Bela Marsh, 1848. Music Division, Library of Congress (084.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0084 – bhp0084p2]
Making a Point with Music
Al Piantadosi (1884–1955) and Alfred Bryan (1871–1958). “I Didn’t Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier.” New York: Leo Feist, 1915. Sheet music. Harry and Sara Lepman Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (086.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0086]
Eugene Platzman and Happy Mack. “I Didn’t Raise My Boy to Be a Slacker.” New York: F. B. Haviland, 1917. Sheet music. Harry and Sara Lepman Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (085.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0085]
F. G. McCauley and C. C. Case. “I Didn’t Raise My Boy to Be a Coward.” Wellington, Ohio: F. G. McCauley, 1917. Sheet music. Harry and Sara Lepman Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (085.01.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0085_01]
Charles Bayha (1891–1957). “I’d Be Proud to Be the Mother of a Soldier.” New York: Shapiro, Bernstein and Co., 1917. Sheet music. Harry and Sara Lepman Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (085.02.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0085_02]
Campaign Songs
Al Jolson. “Harding, You’re the Man for Us.” New York: Al Jolson, 1922. Sheet music. Music Division, Library of Congress (087.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0087]
Irving Berlin. “I Like Ike,” 1952. Manuscript sheet music. Music Division, Library of Congress (087.01.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0087_01]
Irving Berlin. “I Still Like Ike,” February 19, 1954. Holograph lyric sheet. Music Division, Library of Congress (087.02.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0087_02]
Paul Robeson
Flyer for Paul Robeson recording. Naperville, IL: Rediscover Music, 1998. Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress (089.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0089]
Paul Robeson receives an award from George Marshall (1904–2000), chairman of the National Federation for Constitutional Liberties, at a dinner held in New York to unite Americans to fight racial discrimination, April 2, 1944. New York World-Telegram and Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (089.02.00)
[Digital ID # ppmsca-31144]
Pete Seeger
Line drawing of Pete Seeger, ca. 1950s. Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress (091.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0091]
Program for New York Society for Ethical Culture, Folk Song Festival series, January 29, 1955. American Folklife Center, Library of Congress (092.02.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0092_02]
Music and Controversy
People’s Songs. Pete Seeger sings with Henry Wallace in an airplane during a Southern campaign tour, September 1948. Reproduction. Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress (088.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0088]
Defendant-Appellant’s Brief. United States of America v. Peter Seeger. U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, submitted February 15, 1962. Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress (092.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0092]
“Should Pete Seeger Go to Jail?” Flyer, ca. 1961. American Folklife Center, Library of Congress (092.01.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0092_01]
A Topical Song Writer
Myra Buttle. “An Interview with Phil Ochs.” Hootenanny, July 1964. Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress (091.01.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0091_01]
Mainstream Folk Music
Robert Shelton (1926–1995). “Judy Collins/Why I Quit the A.B.C. Show.” Hootenanny, March 1964. Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress (093.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0093]
An Open Letter to Bob Dylan
Irwin Silber. “An Open Letter to Bob Dylan.” Sing Out! November, 1964. Courtesy of Joe Hickerson (093.01.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0093_01]
Music and the Civil Rights Movement
Photograph of Newport Folk Festival, July 1963, (from left): Peter Yarrow, Mary Travers, Noel Paul Stookey, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, The Freedom Singers (Bernice Johnson, Cordell Reagon, 1943–1996, Rutha Harris, b. 1940, Charles Neblett, b. 1941), Pete Seeger, Theodore Bikel. Hootenanny, May 1964. Reproduction. Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress (090.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0090]
“We Are the World”
Garry Trudeau. Doonesbury, March 12, 1985. Drawing. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (094.00.00)
Key:
- Audio
- Video
- Interactive
- Multiple images/pages
- Discovery Facts for Kids