PROJECT PHYSICAL EDUCATION – MUSIC 2º A-B

PROJECT PHYSICAL EDUCATION – MUSIC

Guidelines:

Each student individually must look for a sporting event throughout history that is related to music.

Once chosen, the student must explain what kind of sporting event it is, its relevance at a national or global level, as well as explain the associated musical theme, its author, type of musical genre, author's intention in his work, repercussion that the theme has had in the world of music, symbology, etc ...

Project example:

The Olympic Games of Mexico 1968. “The Star-Spangled Banner” 

and “Olympic Fanfare”.

The Salute of the Black Power of the Olympic Games of Mexico 1968 was a famous sign of protest of the black civil rights in the United States. After winning the 200-meter race at the Olympic Games, African-American athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos, gold and bronze medalists, raised their fists wrapped in a black glove as the American national anthem began to sound.

On the morning of October 16, 1968, the American athlete Tommie Smith won the 200m race with a world record of 19.83 seconds, with the Australian Peter Norman in second place with a time of 20.06 seconds, and the also American John Carlos in third place of 20.10 seconds. After the race, the three went to collect their medals on the podium. The two Americans received their medals, but wore black gloves, representing black poverty. Smith wore a black handkerchief around his neck to represent black pride. Carlos had his tracksuit unbuttoned as a sign of solidarity with the workers of the United States and wore a necklace of beads that, according to him, was ...

    "... For people who were lynched or killed, and no one has said a prayer for them, who were hanged and for those who were thrown into the water in the middle of the passage."

The three athletes wore badges from the Olympic Project for Human Rights, including Norman, who expressed sympathy with the ideals of Smith and Carlos.

The sociologist Harry Edwards, founder of the Project, had incited black athletes to boycott the Olympic Games; apparently, these actions of Smith and Carlos were inspired by the arguments of Edwards.

The two Americans planned to wear black gloves at the event, but Carlos forgot them in the Olympic Village. It was the Australian Peter Norman who suggested that Carlos use Smith's left glove, which is why he raised his left hand instead of his right, differing from the traditional Black Power salute. When The Star-Spangled Banner rang, Smith and Carlos lowered his head, closed his eyes and made the greeting, a gesture that occupied the front pages of all the media in the world. When they left the podium they were booed. Smith will say:

    "If I win, I'm American, not African-American, but if I do something wrong, then it's said that I'm a Negro, we're black and we're proud to be Black, Black America will understand what we did tonight.

Two are the emblematic songs of the 1968 Olympic event, first The Star-Spangled Banner, an American national anthem that played while the black American athletes were on the podium fist held high. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPKp29Luryc

The Star-Spangled Banner is the national anthem of the United States of America. It was adopted in 1931, although its origin goes back almost to the time of independence.

The lyrics were written in 1814 by Francis Scott Key, a 35-year-old lawyer and an inexperienced poet. Key witnessed the bombing of Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland, by the British ships in the Chesapeake Bay during the War of 1812. On September 13, 1814, he visited the bay to try to achieve the freedom of Dr. William Beanes, who He had been captured after the fire in the city of Washington, DC. Key managed to free Beanes, but they stopped him on a ship that night, while attacking Fort McHenry. At dawn, his happiness was such when he saw the United States flag flying over the fort, that he began to write a poem to celebrate it. The song became popular in the United States performed with the melody of the English song To Anacreon in Heav'n.

Second, Olympic Fanfare - Carlos Jiménez Mabarak. A fanfare is a short musical piece of great strength and brilliance, played by several trumpets and other brass instruments, often accompanied by percussion instruments. It is usually used for ceremonial purposes towards royalty to express majesty or for people of social importance. The term is also used symbolically to refer to facts that are given a lot of publicity, although there is no music in them.

Fanfares originated in the Middle Ages, although popular descriptions of ancient Rome often include fanfares. In the eighteenth century in France, the fanfares were movements with energy and repetition of note. In the nineteenth century they were used for the coronation ceremonies of British monarchs (such as the fanfare "I was glad" composed by Hubert Parry for the coronation ceremony of Edward VII) and other important events.

During the XIX Olympic Games of the City of Mexico 1968 the Olympic Fanfare composed by Carlos Jiménez Mabarak was interpreted and that had been selected like winner of a contest. The piece worked as a true parallel anthem, in which the Mexican people were identified. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbnZpuQXCDA

Carlos Jiménez Mabarak (Tacuba, Mexico City, January 31, 1916 - Mexico City, June 21, 1994) was a Mexican composer.

Mabarak is placed in the classification of Mexican composers of transition between nationalism and the avant-garde. He was one of the most productive Mexican composers of the 20th century, a creation made for almost 60 years, which encompassed all genres.

Through a contest, in 1968 his "Fanfare" was chosen as the theme for the Olympic Games in Mexico.