Cross-Curricular Teaching Going Forward: A View from “Strange Fruit”
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Title: | Cross-Curricular Teaching Going Forward: A View from “Strange Fruit” |
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Authors: | Esteve-Faubel, José-María | Martin, Tania Josephine | Junda, Mary Ellen |
Research Group/s: | Música, Artes Escénicas, Patrimonio y Educación Musical (MAPEM) | Humanismo - Europa |
Center, Department or Service: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Didáctica General y Didácticas Específicas |
Keywords: | Strange Fruit | Billie Holiday | Racial violence | Cross-curricular teaching |
Knowledge Area: | Música |
Issue Date: | 10-Feb-2018 |
Publisher: | Penn State University |
Citation: | International Journal of Education & the Arts. 2018, 19(4). doi:10.18113/P8ijea1904 |
Abstract: | “Strange Fruit”, a song popularized by Billie Holiday in 1939, paints a gruesome picture of racial violence suffered by former African-American slaves following Reconstruction, 1863-1877 (Foner, 2011). While many scholars have analyzed the lyrics of “Strange Fruit”, research that focuses on young people’s reaction to the song is scarce. This study explores the impact of Holiday’s performance of the song on students at a New England Research University. Institutional survey software was used to create an online questionnaire that participants (n= 40) answered in a controlled environment. The findings indicate feelings of disgust, anger, shame and sadness after participants listened to “Strange Fruit”. Although few students could indicate the song’s time-period, many recognized the atrocities committed against African-Americans since slavery and the discrimination that continues. “Strange Fruit”, irrespective of whether the participants knew the background of the song, provokes a powerful reaction against racial violence, one which demonstrates the song’s value as a cross-curricular pedagogical tool for developing transversal competences linked to socially desirable values and principles. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/73540 |
ISSN: | 1529-8094 |
DOI: | 10.18113/P8ijea1904 |
Language: | eng |
Type: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Rights: | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License |
Peer Review: | si |
Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.18113/P8ijea1904 |
Appears in Collections: | INV - MAPEM - Artículos de Revistas INV - Humanismo-Europa - Artículos de Revistas y Capítulos de Libros INV - IPA - Artículos de Revistas Nacionales e Internacionales |
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