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00:00Boy, Schroeder, Snoopy was pretty upset when he heard that you didn't want him to be part of the band.
00:07But Charlie Brown, every time I let him play with us, he goes wild.
00:13I know.
00:14And this time, we're going to perform in front of the whole class.
00:19I just can't take a chance, Charlie Brown.
00:22Well, I understand.
00:23But I've never seen him so upset.
00:26Well, how upset can he be?
00:30That upset.
00:36Well, I do feel sorry for him, Charlie Brown, but I just can't take the risk.
00:42It's important that I get a good grade on this report.
00:45Well, maybe if you give him one more chance.
00:54This is Schroeder's concert in front of the whole class, Snoopy.
00:57If he were to consider giving you one more chance, you'd have to promise to be good.
01:04And not to do anything crazy.
01:08Well, okay.
01:10I'll let him play with us.
01:12I just hope I don't regret it.
01:15Hey, what do you think you're doing?
01:34Don't sweat it, sweetie.
01:35We're here to help you with your concert.
01:37I don't need any help.
01:40Look, you're giving a report on the history of American music, right?
01:45Yes, but I...
01:47Well, my report is on American heroes, so we can just do the two reports together.
01:53That's the craziest thing I've ever heard.
01:56Lighten up, sweetie.
01:58We've brought lots of props to dress up your act.
02:02Lucy, if you don't get out of here...
02:05Yes, ma'am?
02:12Well, yes, ma'am.
02:14I guess we can give our reports together.
02:19Yes, ma'am.
02:20I understand that it's his concert.
02:23Okay, sweetie.
02:24The floor is yours.
02:26I am not your sweetie.
02:32Sorry, ma'am.
02:33Yes, I'll get started.
02:36Of all the contributions made by Americans to world culture,
02:40one has been taken to heart by people all around the world.
02:45And that is American popular music.
02:50Oh, no, no.
03:13Beginning in 1847, America's first famous composer to be known around the world was Stephen Foster.
03:42His songs, like this one, I Dream of Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair, became famous around the world.
03:50He grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was influenced by the music he heard in black churches and minstrel shows.
03:58Excuse me, please. Stephen Foster's first big hit was Oh, Susanna.
04:04They didn't call them hits in 1847, Lucy.
04:09Whatever. Anyway, his first hit song was Oh, Susanna.
04:14In 1848, when gold was discovered in California, thousands of people came from all over the world to the California gold country.
04:24And the theme song for these 49ers became, you guessed it, folks, Oh, Susanna.
04:31Cut, cut.
04:41Now what?
04:44During that same year that gold was discovered in California, 1848, a few women got together in Seneca Falls, New York.
04:53This was the first ever meeting to start a campaign to get American women the right to vote.
05:00And this is Susan B. Anthony. She spent her entire adult life speaking out for women's rights, especially the right to vote.
05:12You know something, Chuck? Huh?
05:15It took women 72 years, from 1848 to 1920, before they won the right to vote.
05:2272 years, Chuck. And now I can strike you out with just three pitches.
05:29And in passing, we'd also like to tip our hat to some other great women in American history.
05:36I don't believe this!
05:39Clara Barton became famous as a nurse on the battlefields of the Civil War.
05:44She eventually became the founder of the American Red Cross.
05:49Wow! Well, Helen Keller overcame her own handicaps to show the world the great potential for blind people.
05:58Amelia Earhart became the world's most famous woman aviator in the 1930s and led the cause of feminism.
06:05Now let me tell you about the great anthropologist, Margaret Mead.
06:10She went to the South Seas to...
06:15Oh, yes, ma'am.
06:18Your turn, sweetie. Break a leg.
06:23Thanks a lot.
06:25Songs about America itself go back to the 1700s.
06:30During the War of Independence, fife songs were sung and played on the battlefield.
06:35Yankee Doodle Dandy was such a fife song.
06:46In 1895, an American professor, Catherine Lee Bates, paid a visit to Pikes Peak in Colorado.
06:55She was so moved by the grandeur, she wrote a poem that began,
06:59Oh, beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain.
07:05Eventually, the words were joined with a melody by Samuel Ward.
07:09And America the Beautiful became one of our most treasured songs.
07:22Excuse me.
07:25Now what is it?
07:28Are you going to mention John Philip Sousa?
07:31Of course I'm going to mention him.
07:36Good. He's on my list.
07:39John Philip Sousa became famous around the world as the March King of America.
07:46Of the many marches he wrote, the most famous was Stars and Stripes Forever.
07:51Unfortunately, our small band here will not be able to play Stars and Stripes.
07:58Because it takes a huge brass section and...
08:01Hold it, hold it.
08:03We knew you might need a little help with this one.
08:06Trust me.
08:07Give us the downbeat, maestro.
08:10This is the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen.
08:21If it's alright with you, Lucy, I'd like to talk about George M. Cohan.
08:40That's fine with me.
08:42But please, let me set the stage.
08:44By 1904, the United States had emerged as a world power.
08:52Whether the people liked it or not.
08:55A very popular president, Theodore Roosevelt, brought excitement and change to the entire nation.
09:02Inventions like the telephone, the electric light, the automobile, the airplane,
09:08made Americans believe that nothing was impossible.
09:11Everything from symphonies to vaudeville, from operas to silent movies,
09:17we're bringing entertainment to the whole nation.
09:22And now, sweetie, we can hear about Mr. George M. Cohan.
09:29Many people believe that George M. Cohan was the father of the musical comedy.
09:34His songs, such as Your Grand Old Flag and Give My Regards to Broadway,
09:41caught the spirit of the new century in America.
09:45One of his songs, written in 1904, would symbolize the nothing-can-stop-us-now attitude of the American people.
09:52He would...
09:55Now what?
10:00What are you doing?
10:01Hi!
10:02I'm a Yankee-Doodle-dandy
10:06Yankee-doodle-doodle-doy
10:08A real-life nephew of my young goose
10:12Born on a false o'clock to land
10:15I'm a Yankee-doodle sweetheart
10:18She's my Yankee-doodle-dory
10:20Snoopy, I warned you.
10:35Yes, ma'am.
10:36I apologize for the beagle.
10:38I'll send him right home.
10:44Oh, you liked it a lot?
10:46Do I have anything else for Snoopy?
10:54Well, let's see.
10:56Yes, here we have it.
10:57Ever since the end of the Civil War,
10:59people from all over the world looked to America
11:02as the land of freedom and opportunity.
11:05Millions and millions of immigrants
11:07poured into the United States,
11:09especially from Europe.
11:12On the one hand, many immigrants,
11:14once they arrived,
11:16suffered terrible working and living conditions
11:18until laws and labor unions
11:20eventually came to their rescue.
11:23Many immigrants brought excitement and creativity
11:26to their new land
11:28and became worldwide celebrities.
11:30One of those immigrants was born in Russia in 1888.
11:35Four years later,
11:36he and his family came to America
11:37where they lived in extreme poverty.
11:40But he would go on
11:41to become America's most famous composer,
11:43writing over 1,500 songs,
11:47including God Bless America.
11:50His first big hit,
11:51which made him a national celebrity,
11:55had its foundation in the black music of Wagtime.
11:59His name was Irving Berlin,
12:02and his song, which captivated the nation,
12:04was Alexander's Wagtime Band.
12:06Come on in here, come on in here,
12:07come on in here,
12:08come on in here,
12:08Alexander's Radtime Band.
12:11Come on in here, come on in here,
12:13it's the best band in the land.
12:16Let's play a beautiful call
12:17like you never heard me once.
12:19So that's your role
12:20that you want to go to war.
12:21That's your,
12:22the bestest band one I've ever had.
12:24Oh, come on in here,
12:26let me take you by the hand.
12:31I'm here, I'm here, I'm here,
12:32let me take you by the hand.
13:02than I had planned on.
13:04Hey, what about the blues,
13:06and jazz, and rock and roll?
13:08I've still got a lot of stuff to cover here.
13:12That's next.
13:13That's Franklin's part of the presentation.
13:16Franklin, I think you and I
13:18need to talk this over.
13:20Okay, Lucy, what do you have in mind?
13:23Well now, here's how we ought to tackle this.
13:26I can't stand it,
13:28I just can't stand it.
13:33Although my report is also about American music,
13:36it has a very serious side to it.
13:38And the girls have offered to assist me.
13:41Although Schroeder brought us up to the early 1900s,
13:45we have to go back in time to the Civil War
13:47for just a moment.
13:49Slavery, where people were owned like property,
13:52had lasted for 245 years in America,
13:55ever since the first slaves
13:57had been brought to Jamestown, Virginia in 1620.
14:01When slavery was abolished in America in 1865,
14:05there were approximately 4 million slaves.
14:09Throughout most of those years,
14:10the slaves sang songs called spirituals
14:13as they worked in the fields.
14:15The slaves sang spirituals
14:17to help themselves to simply survive each day
14:20or to pray for a better life in the hereafter.
14:23Nobody knows the trouble I see.
14:28Nobody knows my sorrows.
14:33Nobody knows the trouble I see.
14:38Glory, hallelujah.
14:41These spirituals, both before and after the Civil War,
14:48also became the musical foundation
14:50of the black churches and black preachers
14:53that would spread across the nation.
14:56Black leaders will also emerge, just to name a few.
15:00Booker T. Washington, who headed Tuskegee Institute,
15:03was the advisor to two presidents.
15:07This is scientist George Washington Carver.
15:10He caused a revolution in agriculture in the South.
15:15He changed and improved the growing patterns
15:17of everything from cotton to sweet potatoes to peanuts.
15:23This is W.E.B. Du Bois.
15:26He founded the National Association
15:29for the Advancement of Colored People in 1909.
15:32As the United States passed from the 19th century
15:36to the 20th century,
15:37segregation had replaced slavery
15:39as a new crisis to blacks in America.
15:43Black communities needed to create
15:45an even stronger sense of community.
15:48And once again, just as the spirituals
15:50had been a binding force during slavery,
15:53music would again be a major contributor
15:55to a sense of community for black citizens.
15:59The spiritual would now give way
16:02to something called gospel.
16:04Work songs would slowly become
16:06something called the blues.
16:09Black parade music of New Orleans
16:11would slowly become something called jazz.
16:14And the dances and walk-arounds of the plantation
16:17would end up as something called ragtime.
16:20In 1899, Scott Choplin's Maple Leaf Rag
16:24would sell an astounding one million copies
16:27of sheet music.
16:28Music
16:55Sometimes when a person is sad or depressed or unhappy, he is said to have the blues.
17:02And the blues also became one of America's most famous musical forms.
17:08A person had to sing about the blues or play about the blues to try to get rid of the blues.
17:15A black band leader, W. C. Handy, was one of the first great composers of the blues.
17:22In 1914 and 1915, his Memphis blues and St. Louis blues soon had the whole country singing the blues.
17:31I hate to see the evening sun go down. I hate to see the evening sun go down.
17:44Cause my baby, she done left this town.
17:50I got to say the new dreams come true as I can be.
17:57That girl got a heart like a rock cast in the sea.
18:03And that brings us to the music called jazz. The funeral and parade music of New Orleans, at the turn of the century, turned into one of America's most popular musical styles, jazz.
18:16.
18:17.
18:18.
18:19.
18:20Oh, when the saints go marching in
18:24Oh, how I want to be in the number
18:28When the saints go marching in
18:32Oh, when the saints go marching in
18:37Now, when the saints go marching in
18:41Oh, how I want to be in the number
18:45When the saints go marching in
18:49From these early roots of gospel, blues, ragtime, and jazz,
19:04some of America's greatest composers, white and black,
19:09would be heard from in the 1920s and the 1930s.
19:13George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Bats Waller, and Duke Ellington.
19:18Eventually, music would bring black and white artists together on the same stage at the same time.
19:25This would prove to be an example for later generations
19:28when blacks and whites would share classrooms, work together, compete together, and march together.
19:36A lot of this happened in the 1950s.
19:39The president in the 1950s was Dwight Eisenhower,
19:43the man who also led the Allied troops to victory in World War II.
19:47In the mid-1950s, Dr. Jonas Salk created the Salk vaccine,
19:53which was the beginning of the end of the dreaded disease known as polio.
19:58At the same time, a young pastor named Martin Luther King
20:01would launch the Civil Rights Movement Against Segregation.
20:05But the 1960s in America would prove to be one of the most turbulent decades in American history.
20:11The 1960s started out with hope and inspiration from its leaders.
20:16But by the mid-1960s, the United States was in the Vietnam War,
20:35and President Kennedy and Martin Luther King were gone.
20:38Where have all the flowers gone?
20:45Long time passing
20:49Where have all the flowers gone?
20:53Long time ago
20:56Where have all the flowers gone?
21:01Young girls picked them, everyone
21:04When will they ever learn?
21:09Oh, when will they ever learn?
21:15But one of America's greatest assets has been its ability to fight back from personal and national tragedy.
21:26And a national sense of humor and a national love for music has always helped us recover.
21:31Yankee Doodle
22:01I thought those were great reports you gave.
22:04I wish we could have had more time.
22:06Me too.
22:07You can't cover a whole lot in 20 minutes.
22:10What's the matter with him?
22:14He's upset that you didn't play his favorite music.
22:17What's that?
22:18Rock and roll.
22:20Rock and roll.
22:21Rock and roll.
22:22Rock and roll.
22:23Rock and roll.
22:24Rock and roll.
22:25Rock and roll.
22:26Rock and roll.
22:27Rock and roll.
22:28Rock and roll.
22:29Rock and roll.
22:30Rock and roll.
22:31Rock and roll.
22:32Rock and roll.
22:33Rock and roll.
22:34Rock and roll.
22:35Rock and roll.
22:36Rock and roll.
22:37Rock and roll.
22:38Rock and roll.
22:39Rock and roll.
22:40Rock and roll.
22:41Rock and roll.
22:42Rock and roll.
22:43Rock and roll.
22:44Rock and roll.
22:45Rock and roll.
22:46What's your favorite song, Charlie Brown?
22:50Well, let me think.
22:53I didn't think you had a favorite song, Charlie Brown.
22:56Well, there's one.
22:58And I think it was also written in the 1960s.
23:01I think it was some of that jazz that Franklin was talking about.
23:05Do you know who wrote it?
23:07Or even the name Charlie Brown?
23:10Well, I believe the composer was a man by the name of Vince Giraldi.
23:15And I think it was called Linus and Lucy by coincidence.
23:20Well, how does it go?
23:22Well, I think it goes like this.
23:45.
23:52.
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