School House Rock - Great American Melting Pot
"School House Rock" - это не музыкальная группа, а серия коротких образовательных и просветительских анимационных клипов, транслируемых американским телеканалом ABC с 1973-го по 1999-ый год. Темы роликов были самыми разнообразными - от грамматики английского языка до таблицы умножения, основ экономической теории или фундаментальных принципов гражданской культуры в США.
Чтобы получить общее представление, гляньте "Great American Melting Pot". Эта песенка и забавный мультфильм 1977-го года об американском плавильном котле, мультикультурализме etc. - не имеют ничего общего с социальным протестом, с кампаниями против расизма, дискриминации и ксенофобии. Они, по сути, экранизируют конвенциональный, общеразделяемый миф о стране, возникшей из двух ингридиентов: свободы и иммиграции (см. " American Land" Брюса Спрингстина).
Мульт короткий, но в нем есть все: от легендарного договора отцов-пилигримов на шхуне "Мейфлауэр" в 1620-ом (в национальном самосознании это событие - исходный пункт общественного договора, декларирующего веротерпимость, личную независимость и т.д.) до экспортируемого в XIX веке образа США как "страны надежды" и окончательно сложившегося в XX веке канона "american dream" (в песне изложенном парой строк: "Our heritage is mixed. So any kid could be the president").
School House Rock - Great American Melting Pot
Музыка и стихи - Lynn Ahrens. Поет - Lori Lieberman.
My grandmother came from Russia
A satchel on her knee,
My grandfather had his father's cap
He brought from Italy.
They'd heard about a country
Where life might let them win,
They paid the fare to America
And there they melted in.
Lovely Lady Liberty
With her book of recipes
And the finest one she's got
Is the great American melting pot.
The great American melting pot.
America was founded by the English,
But also by the Germans, Dutch, and French.
The principle still sticks;
Our heritage is mixed.
So any kid could be the president.
You simply melt right right in,
It doesn't matter what your skin.
It doesn't matter where you're from,
Or your religion, you jump right in
To the great American melting pot.
The great American melting pot.
Ooh, what a stew, red, white, and blue.
America was the New World
And Europe was the Old.
America was the land of hope,
Or so the legend told.
On steamboats by the millions,
In search of honest pay,
Those 19th-century immigrants sailed
To reach the U.S.A.
Lovely Lady Liberty
With her book of recipes
And the finest one she's got
Is the great American melting pot
The great American melting pot.
What good ingredients,
Liberty and immigrants.
They brought the country's customs,
Their language and their ways.
They filled the factories, tilled the soil,
Helped build the U.S.A.
Go on and ask your grandma,
Hear what she has to tell
How great to be an American
And something else as well.
Lovely Lady Liberty
With her book of recipes
And the finest one she's got
Is the great American melting pot
The great American melting pot.
The great American melting pot.
The great American melting pot.
Чтобы получить общее представление, гляньте "Great American Melting Pot". Эта песенка и забавный мультфильм 1977-го года об американском плавильном котле, мультикультурализме etc. - не имеют ничего общего с социальным протестом, с кампаниями против расизма, дискриминации и ксенофобии. Они, по сути, экранизируют конвенциональный, общеразделяемый миф о стране, возникшей из двух ингридиентов: свободы и иммиграции (см. " American Land" Брюса Спрингстина).
Мульт короткий, но в нем есть все: от легендарного договора отцов-пилигримов на шхуне "Мейфлауэр" в 1620-ом (в национальном самосознании это событие - исходный пункт общественного договора, декларирующего веротерпимость, личную независимость и т.д.) до экспортируемого в XIX веке образа США как "страны надежды" и окончательно сложившегося в XX веке канона "american dream" (в песне изложенном парой строк: "Our heritage is mixed. So any kid could be the president").
School House Rock - Great American Melting Pot
Click to viewМузыка и стихи - Lynn Ahrens. Поет - Lori Lieberman.
My grandmother came from Russia
A satchel on her knee,
My grandfather had his father's cap
He brought from Italy.
They'd heard about a country
Where life might let them win,
They paid the fare to America
And there they melted in.
Lovely Lady Liberty
With her book of recipes
And the finest one she's got
Is the great American melting pot.
The great American melting pot.
America was founded by the English,
But also by the Germans, Dutch, and French.
The principle still sticks;
Our heritage is mixed.
So any kid could be the president.
You simply melt right right in,
It doesn't matter what your skin.
It doesn't matter where you're from,
Or your religion, you jump right in
To the great American melting pot.
The great American melting pot.
Ooh, what a stew, red, white, and blue.
America was the New World
And Europe was the Old.
America was the land of hope,
Or so the legend told.
On steamboats by the millions,
In search of honest pay,
Those 19th-century immigrants sailed
To reach the U.S.A.
Lovely Lady Liberty
With her book of recipes
And the finest one she's got
Is the great American melting pot
The great American melting pot.
What good ingredients,
Liberty and immigrants.
They brought the country's customs,
Their language and their ways.
They filled the factories, tilled the soil,
Helped build the U.S.A.
Go on and ask your grandma,
Hear what she has to tell
How great to be an American
And something else as well.
Lovely Lady Liberty
With her book of recipes
And the finest one she's got
Is the great American melting pot
The great American melting pot.
The great American melting pot.
The great American melting pot.