Banned Books Week Rocks!: Programming Using Popular MusicBeth West -Southeastern Louisiana University

100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Radiohead “Banana Co.”1984 by George Orwell David Bowie “1984”Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll Jefferson Airplane “White Rabbit”Animal Farm by George Orwell R.E.M. “Disturbance at the Heron House”The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath Ryan Adams “Sylvia Plath”The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac 10,000 Maniacs “Hey, Jack Kerouac”Lolita by Vladimir Nabakov The Police “Don’t Stand So Close to Me”Lord of the Flies by William Golding Iron Maiden “Lord of the Flies”The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by JRR Tolkein Led Zeppelin “Ramble On”The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov The Rolling Stones “Sympathy for the Devil”To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Ra Ra Riot “Each Year”Ulysses by James Joyce Franz Ferdinand “Ulysses”…and many more

The Display The Playlist The Media

Tips for the display:--Use old LPs from thrift stores as decoration or overlap on top of a table. They can be microwaved and bent to cover table edges.--Use back issues of Rolling Stone or other music magazines to decoupage a false tabletop or background--Make bookmarks with a link to Youtube playlist/Podcast--Include eye catching props such as old boom boxes or cassettes with the tape pulled out for “streamers”

Rock School is a weekly syndicated radio show originating from KSLU in Hammond. Every week, hosts Dr. Joe Burns and Chad P. explore a different topic. We recorded a show for Banned Books Week in which we talked about the books that had been challenged/banned and played the songs that corresponded.

Your library can: --Play and link to the Rock School podcast on the Rock School site (Also available free on iTunes)--Make and link to a Youtube playlist of the songs that relate to books--Approach a local radio station who might be interested in letting you guest host a show of your own!You can do it! Being on the radio is easy, and the worst that can happen is that they say “no”.