{"id":2045,"date":"2010-11-29T08:37:02","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T15:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2045"},"modified":"2010-11-29T08:38:35","modified_gmt":"2010-11-29T15:38:35","slug":"learning-history-through-pop-tunes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2045","title":{"rendered":"Learning History through Pop Tunes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <em>Sightless Among Miracle<\/em>s, a <a href=\"http:\/\/amongmiracles.wordpress.com\/2010\/11\/20\/this-is-intensely-brilliant\/\">link to a group of history teachers&#8217; remakes of music videos to teach history.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>French seismologists have probably noticed disturbances near Toulouse caused by\u00a0 medieval theologian <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_Aquinas\">Thomas Aquinas<\/a> spinning in his grave after having been\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/amongmiracles.wordpress.com\/2010\/11\/20\/this-is-intensely-brilliant\/\">memorialized to the tune of &#8220;Venus.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The rap-style delivery of Middle English in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/historyteachers#p\/u\/41\/vBa5nN_JyPk\">Canterbury Tales<\/a> is excellent, contrasting nicely with the tune, which is The Mamas and the Papas&#8217; &#8220;California Dreaming.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Check out the whole YouTube channel. You won&#8217;t be wasting your time.<\/p>\n<p>(The real rap-ready early modern English poet is<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Skelton\"> John Skelton<\/a>, but that is another story.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Sightless Among Miracles, a link to a group of history teachers&#8217; remakes of music videos to teach history. French seismologists have probably noticed disturbances near Toulouse caused by\u00a0 medieval theologian Thomas Aquinas spinning in his grave after having been\u00a0 memorialized to the tune of &#8220;Venus.&#8221; The rap-style delivery of Middle English in Canterbury Tales [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[100,34],"class_list":["post-2045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-history","tag-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-wZ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":57,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=57","url_meta":{"origin":2045,"position":0},"title":"Comprehending the Great Vowel Shift","author":"Chas S. 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