Patriotic Music....

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So, my daughter's preschool apparently has themes for the music they play. Didn't know that--what you learn from parent newsletters. This month it's jazz and blues. Next month: patriotic music.

that just makes me cringe.... is that Toby Keith? Actually, the woman who runs the preschool is really nice, but this one has me concerned. I don't want my 3 year old being fed mindless, jingoistic crap. (other kinds, perhaps?).

I'm going to find out what she's planning, but I figured I'd have some vaguely more acceptable patriotic music. Any suggestions?

Top of my head were some Woody Guthrie and Phil Ochs (power and the glory, perhaps.).

what say?

― nick ring (nick ring), Thursday, 15 January 2004 02:30 (twenty-two years ago)

God Save The Queen?

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 15 January 2004 02:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Why do you hate America?

― Famous Athlete, Thursday, 15 January 2004 03:31 (twenty-two years ago)

La Marseillaise

― Adam Thompson (adamth), Thursday, 15 January 2004 04:27 (twenty-two years ago)

stockhausen's "hymnen!" you know you wanna!!!

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Thursday, 15 January 2004 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)

"This land is your land"

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 15 January 2004 17:07 (twenty-two years ago)

"Why do you hate America?"

If they wrote the US national anthem today, this would probably it's title!!!!!!!

― Old Fart!!! (oldfart_sd), Thursday, 15 January 2004 17:13 (twenty-two years ago)

A homeland that extended its wings over the horizon,
And wore the glory of civilization as a garment--
Blessed be the land of the two rivers,
A homeland of glorious determination and tolerance.
This homeland is made of flame and splendour
And pride unequaled by the high heavens.
It is a mountain that rises above the tops of the world
And a plain that embodies our pride.
Babylon is inherent in us and Assyria is ours,
And because of the glory of our background
History itself radiates with light,
And it is we alone who possess the anger of the sword
And the patience of the prophets.
Oh company of al-Ba'th, you pride of lions,
Oh pinnacle of pride and of inherited glory,
Advance, bringing terror, to a certain victory
And resurrect the time of al-Rashid in our land!
We are a generation who give all and toil to the utmost.

Oh expanse of glory, we have returned anew
To a nation that we build with unyielding determination.
And each martyr follows in the footsteps of a former martyr.
Our mighty nation is filled with pride and vigour
And the comrades build the fortresses of glory.
Oh Iraq, may you remain forever a refuge for all the Arabs
And be as suns that turn night into day!

― Siegbran (eofor), Thursday, 15 January 2004 17:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Schoolhouse Rock

― Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 15 January 2004 17:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Woody Guthrie is the antithesis of patriotic. But it may be a good, subversive choice.

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 15 January 2004 17:40 (twenty-two years ago)

"Back in the U.S.A." by Chuck Berry, as performed by Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers.

― Luigi Vampa (Horace Mann), Thursday, 15 January 2004 17:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I sort of considered most of power metal sort of patriotic; well maybe not, I'm not sure. Or maybe they just sing about the epic history of their country. Example, we have Iced Earth who just came out with Glorious Burden, that's sort of a concept album 'bout history,(Shaffer is like a history geek) and has acouple songs bout American history and like a 30 minute epic bout gettysburg (the funny thing is the best songs of the cd are those that have nothing to do with the US, ej. Waterloo, Attila, Red Baron). We have Tierra Santa Spaniard power metal band tinjed with, guess, songs about Spanish history.(Ex: Reconquista, Armada Invencible) And is the Trooper about a british trooper fighting the russian army? For some reason I'd always thought it was about a Japanese trooper in the Ruso-Japanese war at the beginning of the 20th century, but the Trooper Iron Maiden shirts always put Eddie dressed as a WWI British Trooper. Anyway, well, power metal is not necesarilly patriotic,just like an introduction to war history.

― Cacaman Flores, Friday, 16 January 2004 04:32 (twenty-two years ago)

you shouldn't ask a parrot to explain.

― keith m (keithmcl), Friday, 16 January 2004 04:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Why not J.P. Sousa? The quintessential American patriotic music, and instrumental so you could conceivably let it mean whatever you like.

― dylan (dylan), Friday, 16 January 2004 04:40 (twenty-two years ago)

some interesting suggestions. I did thing of something like Sousa. I'll have to see what she has in mind.

Woody actually had a number of songs I would call patriotic, but distinctly not jingoistic. "This Land", for one, and I'm sure there are others, like Phil Och's "the Power and the Glory", which is also about Woody, speaks to the natural beauty of the country and the potential if we, as a nation, were to live up to some of the ideals that were set forth. I know Phil Ochs often saw himself as a patriot.

I'm not sure if God Save the Queen was a joke or not, but that and the Marseillaise are certainly patriotic songs, if not American.

What non-traditional/non-standard songs could work as patriotic songs. And remember, these are kids 3-5 years old. Kids can relate to Jonathan Richman, I think. Mine seems to enjoy him. Hmm....

― nick ring (nick ring), Friday, 16 January 2004 05:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Patti Smith's "People Have the Power" is a good one for expressing certain constitional ideals. I'm not sure if 3- to 5-year olds would dig it, though. My nearly 3-year-old son is in love with Dan Zanes, formerly of the Del Fuegos, who now does kids' music. He's done loads of traditional American folk songs, some of which might work.

― dylan (dylan), Friday, 16 January 2004 06:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Look out California
Oooh-oooh, I gotta warn ya
Here comes CANADA!

― Captain Sleep (Captain Sleep), Friday, 16 January 2004 08:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know why I just said that.

― Captain Sleep (Captain Sleep), Friday, 16 January 2004 08:20 (twenty-two years ago)

"The Trooper" is about the Crimean war, apparently.

― Siegbran (eofor), Friday, 16 January 2004 09:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Woody actually had a number of songs I would call patriotic, but distinctly not jingoistic. "This Land", for one

That song was about how there should be no land ownership. .. But, yes I think he was a fan of Jefferson & Franklin, et al. So a patriot in some respects, but very anti-nationalism.

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 16 January 2004 13:11 (twenty-two years ago)

stockhausen's "hymnen!" you know you wanna!!!

This actually offended a good many Germans when it was first premiered - and not just on grounds of musical taste!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 16 January 2004 13:25 (twenty-two years ago)

seven years pass...

can't quarrel w/ a word of this

http://mlb.sbnation.com/2011/6/16/2225968/mlb-god-bless-america

― already president FYI (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 June 2011 14:37 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7U3Y8p4A_8

― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 16 June 2011 15:02 (fourteen years ago)

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