{"id":2029,"date":"2010-11-02T05:01:33","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T12:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/?p=2029"},"modified":"2010-11-01T23:00:16","modified_gmt":"2010-11-02T06:00:16","slug":"commemorating-the-dead-with-johnny-cash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/commemorating-the-dead-with-johnny-cash","title":{"rendered":"Commemorating the Dead with Johnny Cash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2032\" title=\"Johnny Cash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/johnnycash-300x287.png\" alt=\"Johnny Cash\" width=\"240\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/johnnycash-300x287.png 300w, http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/johnnycash.png 353w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/>Today is the Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed, otherwise known as All Souls Day. As we remember all those who have died, it is important to remember that in death life is only changed, not ended.<\/p>\n<p>Johnny Cash&#8217;s final musical legacy beautifully expresses our hope of eternal life, and can provide teachers with a powerful opening to a discussion of the afterlife.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly before he died in 2003, Johnny Cash recorded his last song, &#8220;Ain&#8217;t No Grave,&#8221; a haunting 1953 spiritual by Claude Ely. As Cash sings, his gravelly voice defies the despair of the tomb. The song has inspired an amazing endeavor called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejohnnycashproject.com\/\">The Johnny Cash Project<\/a>, in which people all over the world are contributing to Cash&#8217;s last music video.<\/p>\n<p>According to the site,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Through this interactive website, participants may draw their own portrait of Johnny Cash to be integrated into a collective whole. As people all over the world contribute, the project will continue to evolve and grow, one frame at a time.<\/p>\n<p>Submit your drawing to become a part of the new music video for the song &#8220;Ain&#8217;t No Grave.&#8221; Strung together and relayed in sequence your art, paired with Johnny&#8217;s haunting song, will become a living, moving, and ever changing portrait of the legendary Man in Black.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The following video explains that over 250,000 people from 172 countries have already contributed to the project. To see the results, be sure to watch past the 2:51 mark, where the video actually begins.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"450\" height=\"278\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/WwNVlNt9iDk?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s truly an amazing accomplishment, and one that teachers can use as an entry point into talking about the difficult subject of death. Here are some ideas for how this video might be used in a middle school or high school classroom:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Invite students to create their own pictures of their deceased loved ones making the journey to heaven. The pictures could then be scanned and put together into a book or video.<\/li>\n<li>Ask students to write their own song or poem about the hope of heaven.<\/li>\n<li>Freeze the video on certain frames and ask what the artist might have been trying to say about life or death.<\/li>\n<li>Organize students into small groups, and using iMovie, Windows Movie Maker, or other video editing software, have them choose a similar song and create a video using images from <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Main_Page\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a> or some other royalty-free image site.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>How would you use the song or video in your classroom? Do you have other songs you like to share with students to help them deal with the mystery of death?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There ain&#8217;t no grave can hold my body down.<br \/>\nThere ain&#8217;t no grave can hold my body down.<\/p>\n<p>When I hear that trumpet sound I&#8217;m gonna rise right outta the ground<br \/>\nAin&#8217;t no grave that can hold my body down.<\/p>\n<p>Well look way down the river and what do you think I see?<br \/>\nI see a band of angels and they&#8217;re coming after me.<\/p>\n<p>Ain&#8217;t no grave can hold my body down.<br \/>\nThere ain&#8217;t no grave can hold my body down.<\/p>\n<p>Well look down yonder, Gabriel, put your feet on the land and sea.<br \/>\nBut Gabriel don&#8217;t you blow your trumpet \u2018til you hear from me.<\/p>\n<p>There ain&#8217;t no grave can hold my body down<br \/>\nAin&#8217;t no grave can hold my body down.<\/p>\n<p>Well meet me Jesus, meet me, meet me in the middle of the air<br \/>\nAnd if these wings don\u2019t fail me, I will meet you anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Ain&#8217;t no grave can hold my body down.<br \/>\nThere ain&#8217;t no grave can hold my body down.<\/p>\n<p>Well meet me, mother and father, meet me down the river road<br \/>\nAnd mama you know that I\u2019ll be there when I check in my load.<\/p>\n<p>Ain&#8217;t no grave can hold my body down<br \/>\nThere ain&#8217;t no grave can hold my body down<\/p>\n<p>There ain&#8217;t no grave can hold my body down<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed, otherwise known as All Souls Day. As we remember all those who have died, it is important to remember that in death life is only changed, not ended. Johnny Cash&#8217;s final musical legacy beautifully expresses our hope of eternal life, and can provide teachers with a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/commemorating-the-dead-with-johnny-cash\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Commemorating the Dead with Johnny Cash&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,78],"class_list":["post-2029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching-tips","tag-all-souls","tag-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prZ8V-wJ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1331,"url":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/12-virtues-of-a-good-teacher-part-iii","url_meta":{"origin":2029,"position":0},"title":"12 Virtues of a Good Teacher &#8211; Part III","author":"Deacon Nick","date":"August 18, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Teaching is a noble and essential profession, not only for society but also for the Church.\u00a0 In this third and final reflection on Brother Luke Grande's book Twelve Virtues of a Good Teacher, we meditate on virtues that emphasize the profound effect teachers have on their students. 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