Music with a message!

Do you ever listen to a song and find yourself moved so deeply that you are almost in tears? Have you ever been to a live performance that turned your worst day into the best? Have you ever heard a song that inspired you?

Music has the power to move and change us.

The combination of the right lyrics, rhythm and tools can create a group identity, arouse strong emotions, engage the audience and crowd people to take action.

This makes music the perfect partner for social change.

Music is a medium through which people can convey important messages and ideals to others in the hope that they will truly listen and, as a result, come together and bring about social, political and economic change. (source: https://www.un.org/africarenewal/magazine/december-2013/music-can-change-world)

A song because there is no time to wait to change. By taking a small action, you can be part of something much bigger. Change will come, but we have to do it.

Why don't we try to get our message out?

ACTIVITY FOR STUDENTS

Students will work divided into international teams and will have to make a simple and short piece (music and words) that dealing a theme of active citizenship: discrimination - violence - climate change - cyberbullying, etc ...
Students can use the forum to discuss while a Google.doc to write text together. Students will find a Google.doc in the Forum in the group they have been assigned to (look at the subpage international groups).
At the end each group will have to upload its song in the Twinboard below.

Students from Italy, Greece and Serbia made four songs for social change