'Schoolhouse Rock' the Vote Album Still Holds Up For Voting Rights
The news from the Capitol this morning is especially dreary if you were hoping for some kind of voting equity moving forward. Two key voting rights bills were yelled down by Republicans this hebdomad, pretty much putting a coffin boom in Democratic attempts to insure fair balloting access for many hoi polloi around the nation.
But, instead of wallowing in those omnipresent feelings of empiric dread we've all been sharing for the last, oh, seven eld, maybe a anticipate the future volition help. How? Teach your kids about voting rights, of course! And not in a irksome, social studies textbook sort of means, just the way people of a foreordained generation (X) learned about voting rights…and pretty much everything else.
With School Rock, duh!
In 1998, the gang at Schoolhouse Rock outdid themselves with an album prerecorded to welfare MTV's Rock the Vote go-ahead. Filled with icons like The Roots and Etta King James I along with 90s icons like Joan Osborne and John Popper, this album is just what the MD ordered to non only bring back some practically-necessary optimism just also to show your kids that a Bill isn't just a Placard and that The Preamble to the Composition is actually pretty amazing.
Everyone over the age of 40 learned almost everything they needed to know in life from School Rock, and this 90s-fied variation of all of our faves is, I'm non gonna lie, pretty damned awesome. From John Popper melodious The Preamble to The Sugarhill Gang coating Schoolhouse Rock classic Fireworks, this record album leave a) make you want to be 18 and voting for the first clock time again, b) teach your kids a thing or two about the history of ballot (and maybe think you'rhenium kinda unusual for dancing around your kitchen singing about bills), and c) excuse your angst for a few proceedings. Unless you're Gen X. Our Angst is never going anywhere.
Also, as luck would have it, used copies of the Schoolhouse Rocks the Vote is ready on Virago, so you can dust off the old CD player and double-down on the nostalgia of it all.
Source: https://www.fatherly.com/news/make-your-kids-care-about-voting-rights-listen-to-this-great-vintage-album/
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