Constitution Center schools us on women's history via a Lady Gaga song
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Every day in March, the National Constitution Center is serving up programming in honor of Women's History Month.
One of the more striking presentations is the center's "Decoding the Lyrics" analysis, which features a music video that puts a rather avant-garde twist on the women's suffrage timeline.
Back in 2012, Soomo Publishing, a North Carolina-based interactive textbooks publisher, premiered its educational music video, "Bad Romance: Women's Suffrage," set to the music (and in the style of) Lady Gaga's original song. It has more than two million hits on YouTube.
Check it out (courtesy of the Constitution Center):
Can we talk about the fantastic production value in that vid? That's some practiced choreography, and Gaga herself would be jealous of those costumes.
Every day at the Constitution Center, visitors can partake in the exercise (a viewing, plus analysis) at 12:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. The center created a lesson plan that takes a look at some of the symbols in Soomo's video (the glass of wine in the beginning pays homage to a famous photo of Alice Paul raising a glass to suffrage in 1920, for instance) and offers up some truly interesting history tidbits.
Check out more information about the Constitution Center's Women's History Month programming here.
