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Bob Dylan, “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” (1963)

October 3, 2020 By Professor Arielle Saiber

 

“I saw a black branch with blood that kept drippin’…”  A reference to Pier delle Vigne, Inf. 13?

Contributed by Lorenzo Hess (Bowdoin, ’23)

Categories: Music
Tagged with: 1963, 2020, Bob Dylan, Folk music, Suicide, Violence

Dan Christian, All My Life’s A Circle… A Harry Chapin and Dante Alighieri Anthology (2006)

September 9, 2020 By lsanchez

“Taking ideas and putting them into action is a specialty of Baltimore, Maryland, English teacher Dan Christian. In his quarter century of teaching at The Gilman School, Christian has successfully merged his two passions, the music of Harry Chapin and the teaching of Dante’s poem the Divine Comedy. The result is a thought-provoking and insightful spiral-bound book of student essays called All My Life’s A Circle…A Harry Chapin & Dante Alighieri Anthology.

Until this year, Christian’s in-class efforts had been informal, with references to Harry being made as ideas arose while teaching. Recalling a concept that emerged from a 1990 seminar for teachers of Dante’s work, this year Christian formally put ‘celestial cross-pollination’–the intersection of art and literature–into place. Christian notes, ‘I asked my students to answer the question: Why and in what ways could a character in Dante’s poem have benefited from or been enriched by listening to this particular song?'”    –Linda McCarty, Circle!, Summer 2006

Dan Christian was the 2017 winner of the Durling Prize of the Dante Society of America, which recognizes exceptional accomplishments by North American secondary school teachers who offer courses or units on Dante’s life and works. Read more about Dan’s teaching philosophy on his website https://danteiseverywhere.com/.

Categories: Music, Written Word
Tagged with: 2006, America, Baltimore, Circles of Hell, Education, Folk music, High School, Maryland, Music

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