Unit 2 lesson 1 Bob Dylan

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Today's plan:

• Unit 2 introduction: Bob Dylan.
• Song: The Hurricane
• Book unit 2 pages 60 - 63
• Do ex 2-9

Bob Dylan

Real name: Robert Allen Zimmerman - 24 May 1941

American artist

Very influential.

He wrote a lot of protest songs. Nobel Prize of Literature in 2016.

We are going to listen to his song  "The Hurricane" .

Introduced: stream of consciousness = (losse gedachten en invallen)

"Hurricane"

Written in 1975

Events from 1966 

 

Events

"Hurricane" is a protest song by Bob Dylan co-written with Jacques Levy and released as a single in November 1975. It was also included on Dylan's 1976 album Desire. The song is about the imprisonment of boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter (1937–2014). It compiles acts of racism and profiling against Carter, which Dylan describes as leading to a false trial and conviction.

Events

Carter and a man named John Artis had been charged with a triple murder at the Lafayette Grill in Paterson, New Jersey, in 1966. The following year Carter and Artis were found guilty of the murders, which were widely reported as racially motivated. In the years that followed, a substantial amount of controversy emerged over the case, ranging from allegations of faulty evidence and questionable eyewitness testimony to an unfair trial.

In his autobiography, Carter maintained his innocence, and after reading it, Dylan visited him in Rahway State Prison in Woodbridge Township, New Jersey.

Let's get away from here, it's the heat! 

Let's get out of here, it's hot. 

Laten we maken dat we wegkomen, het is hier heet

Laten we maken dat we wegkomen, het is de politie

Put the screws to someone

1. To pressure (another) in an extreme manner
2. to participate in some activity without playing an active or central role in the proceedings.
3. to cooperate with someone

To play ball with someone

1. To pressure (another) in an extreme manner
2. to participate in some activity without playing an active or central role in the proceedings.
3. To play basketball with someone
4. to cooperate with someone

His cards were marked in advance

1. to participate in some activity without playing an active or central role in the proceedings.
2. the outcome was already known
3. to be under one's total influence, domination, or control

It is a pig-circus

1. It is a funny business
2. A false testimony
3. A trial with a bribed judge
4. a phony court trial, where generalizations are made about facts that don't exist in order to meet a predetermined outcome desired by the judge

To go along for the ride

1. To pressure (another) in an extreme manner
2. to be under one's total influence, domination, or control
3. to participate in some activity without playing an active or central role in the proceedings.

To be in the palm of someone's hand

1. To pressure (another) in an extreme manner
2. to cooperate with someone
3. To be under one's total influence, domination, or control.

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Homework:

• Do ex 2 - 9
  
• Study FU pages 63/66 Dutch-English