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projector, sound system

screen, table/media cart (for projector), bottled water, parking space

Performance space large enough for an entire grade level to attend at the same time - auditorium is preferable, but can also accommodate gym, cafeteria or library.

I can identify three of America's most important movements for social change: the Labor Rights Movement, Civil Rights movement, and Antiwar Movement. I can demonstrate how these movements were intertwined and identify the crucial role that music had in effecting social change. I can illustrate the importance of civic engagement by a nation's citizens.

Music played a major role in three of America's most important movements for social change in the Twentieth Century: labor rights, civil rights, and the antiwar movement. Through a compelling and interactive narrative full of participatory singing and visual aides, Alastair Moock introduces students to the music of all three movements, and shows how songs and resistance techniques were passed from one to the next. Along the way, kids get acquainted with some of the major songs and singers of the eras, including Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, the SNCC Freedom Singers, and Bob Dylan. But this is not purely a history lesson: Alastair begins and ends the program by asking kids about the changes they might want to bring about in their own country, and shows them that powerful political music is still around today, if you know where to look.

This program is designed to work across a multitude of grade levels. It has been performed for third graders up through college with great success. With older students, he digs deeper into names and dates, looking closer at the nitty gritty of each individual movement. Moock uses slide show imagery to reach visual learners.