‘WE LEARNED MORE FROM A THREE-MINUTE RECORD THAN WE EVER LEARNED IN SCHOOL.’
© Brooks Kraft/Corbis
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
TRACKING: CRACKING THE POP SONG CODE In this tracking you will: read texts and watch footage about the birth and evolution of pop music; listen to and analyse song lyrics; learn about poetic devices in pop music; create your own festival concept; present an argument on music. In this tracking you can: carry out literary or linguistic research on song lyrics.
CONTENTS 1
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2
‘I Want To Break Free’
3
1.1
The rigid rules of our fathers
3
1.2
The rise of youth culture
6
1.3
‘The Times They Are A-Changin’’
8
1.4
‘Here We Are Now, Entertain Us’
11
Icons or idols?
15
2.1
Elvis and the birth of rock and roll
15
2.2
Beatlemania
16
2.3
The makeable pop star
18
Festivalitis
20
3.1
My festival kit
20
3.2
My favourite concert ever
20
3.3
Woodstock: ‘Sex, drugs and rock and roll’?
21
3.4
Jobs of a lifetime
23
3.4.1
Ready to be a roadie?
23
3.4.2
A journalist’s report
25
3.4.3
My own festival
26
Pop music: art or entertainment?
26
4.1
Poetry or ‘just a song’?
26
4.2
Make or break lyrics
28
4.3
Chords of poetry
29
4.4
Digging deeper
32
‘I Beg Your Pardon?’
33
5.1
‘I don’t know what I’m singing’
33
5.2
‘They don’t know what he’s singing’
35
5.3
‘Does your mother know what you’re singing?’
37
5.4
Anthems of your generation
40
5.5
Presenting an argument
40
5.6
Your own song lyrics
41
Tracking tools
42
6.1
Poetic devices
42
6.2
Music genres
43
TRACKING: CRACKING THE POP SONG CODE