Project Two!

Here we go, folks. This is gonna be fun.

Reading for Friday 2-26: Ogbar on Hip Hop

Finally, friends, let's bring this conversation into the late 20 century! Pleaser read and respond to Ogbar for Friday.

Note that we have moved the due date for Project Two to MARCH 20th because of snow days. Please adjust your calendars!

Reading and Listening for Monday 2/23: Kevin Young and the Blues

Hi, friends! Instead of reading more theory this weekend, let's head right over to Kevin Young. Please read this excerpt from Young's wonderful book, The Grey Album, and listen to the two songs below, both of which are mentioned in the article.

Then, please write a 250-word blog entry considering how Young's thinking about the relationship between movements of thought (like modernism), movements of creativity (like the Harlem Rennaissance), musical genre (like the blues), and historical envents could be applied to Modern Rap and Country Music.

How might we place these genres with the same context into which Young places the Blues? Finally, how might Hebdige's ideas about subculture and style help us to do so?

Homework for Friday 2/20: New playlist! It's been a while!

Dear friends,

Please listen to the following playlist, and select one of the country songs and one of the rap songs to write about.

Then, please write a separate page response to each song, discussing how that song represents/signifies a specific subculture, making use of five of the keywords/concepts that you found in the Hebdige reading.

 It's ok if you don't fully get Hebdige, and/or if your thinking about how these songs relate isn't yet fully formed. Right now, we are just starting to think about the relationship between music and culture/subculture, and mixing those concepts around in our brainpans. It'll be fun!

Snow Day Activity

Hi, friends! Happy snow day! As promised, here is your asynchronous class work for today. Please post the response to your blog by midnight. Have fun!

Please download the pdf of Dick Hebdige's Subculture: the Meaning of Style. We'll be reading several selections from this book for this unit.

To start, please read pp.1-4 and pp.23-29 (according to the numbering on the book, not on the pdf). Then, please make a series of of detailed notes about what Hebdige is saying about culture, subculture, style, and object. Start by chunking what you've read, with a full sentence summary of each chunk and a full precis of each of the two sections sections. Then, identify at least ten important keywords for the two sections taken together.

Your homework for Friday will involve more thinking about this reading!

Reading Roundup 2-13-15

Hi, friends,

For homework this weekend, please read the articles below, and then a write a single response covering both.

Word on the Suite

When Country Was King

Can't wait to talk to you about this!

Anna

Paper #1 Peer Editing Procedure

Here's how we roll:

Pair off with a friend, exchange drafts, and follow this process with their draft. I'll ask to see what you produce later on:

1.     Chunk the paper into sections  and write a one-sentence summary of each section.

2.     Go through the paper with a pen and circle every single example or piece of outside evidence

3.     Write down (complete sentences) five observations about the original thinking or ideas in the paper.

4.     Write down ten questions inspired by reading the paper

5.     Write down five observations and the paper’s written style.

Finish with a short in-person chat.

Conference Sign-Up for Friday

Hi friends,

Hope your rough draft for Paper #1 is going well!

 Just a reminder that we will be having conferences in the Dav on Friday instead of having class. Don't forget to sign up for a slot using the office hours sign-up in the upper right hand corner of the blog. To your conference, please bring a printed copy of your rough draft, and a list of at least three questions about that draft to get our discussion started.


I'm really looking forward to chatting with each of you one-on-one!
Anna