Conclusion
In order to fully explore the play and prepare both teachers and students for the push to perform a close reading of the songs, both inside Hamilton the play and from outside in the songs that inspired his work, President Barack Obama said in an introduction to the Tony Awards that Hamilton is “A civics lesson our kids cannot get enough of” as well as that the musical is full of “fierce, youthful energy; one where rap is the language of revolution and hip hop its urgent soundtrack”, (Michelle Obama) “It is a musical about the miracle that is America, a place of citizenship, where we debate our ideas with passion and conviction”. Students will take hold of history in new ways, so as to retell it with a fresh voice, with a bachata beat, perhaps, and in so doing refashion every reader or audience member’s perception of who is at the center of the political discourse, and who plays the starring role in if not the historical record, the present moment.
The show must go on!
- Anonymous
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