Is it Something Else . Taking things that speak to you. Rose whats the object lesson here . Its a really Emotional Experience for them. Rose tell me the significance of the moment. Rose mildred and richard loving didnt start out to change the law of the land. They simply wanted to be married. The arrest of the interracial couple ended with a Historic Supreme Court ruling, and their story is told in the film loving. The film was written and directed by jeff nichols, golden globe nominee, ruth nedprks a, plays Mildred Loving and nick control plays the couples attorney. You want to try to find their essence and you want to try to represent that truthfully. And i do not think they had an agenda. I think its very important to the way the story plays out in the film, and i think its really important to their story overall, which is the act of them getting married was not an act of defiance. It wasnt a symbol or a statement that they were trying to make. They just truly loved one another. And
Is it Something Else . Taking things that speak to you. Rose whats the object lesson here . Its a really Emotional Experience for them. Rose tell me the significance of the moment. Rose mildred and richard loving didnt start out to change the law of the land. They simply wanted to be married. The arrest of the interracial couple ended with a Historic Supreme Court ruling, and their story is told in the film loving. The film was written and directed by jeff nichols, golden globe nominee, ruth nedprks a, plays Mildred Loving and nick control plays the couples attorney. You want to try to find their essence and you want to try to represent that truthfully. And i do not think they had an agenda. I think its very important to the way the story plays out in the film, and i think its really important to their story overall, which is the act of them getting married was not an act of defiance. It wasnt a symbol or a statement that they were trying to make. They just truly loved one another. And
The trip back in time. Were surrounded in this room by gifts of state that president wilson received. One of the reasons he received so many spectacular gifts, frankly, is first, because he was the First American president to go to europe while he was in office. But secondly, because the world so fervently hoped for him to succeed in the mission he had taken on, of ending the catastrophe that was world war i. I think its hard for us to think now about how shocking world war i was to the people who had to live through it. And so the music of that era, to that time. I think as youll see this afternoon, hearing from michael, a lot of sense of music that existed and the america that existed before the war, and the muse that i can reveals to us the america that came out of that war. Youll see something of a transformation there. Michael lasser is a lecturer, writer, broadcaster, critic, and teacher about american music. Ive written it down, because hes written two books that i want to share
And im not being snotty. It was a different kind of war. The people were not engaged by it. In vietnam, you had some songs, but theyre songs in which two groups are warring with one another. Give peace a chance, and whats the im an oaky from ma skokie. Iraq and afghanistan dont produce a lot of songs. Again, because in a way they were invisible, and in a way, we know about them, were not as a nation engaged in it. We dont have a citizen army anymore. That gets in the way of that. So in world war i, you have a mix. Really, in the middle between the two wars, and it shows. There were songs about mom, and there were songs about sweetie. Soldiers singing im going to pin the medal on the girl i left behind, in world war i. There are other differences between world war i and world war ii, love songs that ill save for a few minutes. But its the mother song that i want to get to. Again, its the idea of staying out of it, delivering a kind of anthem, in the way that the first song is an anthem,
Hes going over there to do his share when alexander takes him ragtime band to france hell capture everyone and take them one by one the ragtime tunes will put the germans in a trans theyll sing hip hip hooray theyll get so excited theyll come over the top two steps back to berlin with a hip and a hop hitler will know when alexander takes his ragtime band to france now, i came in here and rehearsed. So imagine how bad it would be if i hadnt rehearsed. That song obviously comes once weve gone into the war. Let me fill in the pieces broadly, and then as the songs come up, ill place them for you. We get that berlin song called lets all be americans now which comes soon after a group of songs that were in response to a specific incident. That is what really galvanizes american patriotism. What really galvanizes american support for the allies, you know what the event was . The sinking of the lusitania. In the months after the sinking, there are dozens of songs about the sinking of the lusit