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Prompt for Blog 9
Below, I’ve included links/downloads for the Music and… Playlist presentations that I’ve received so far. Browse through the presentations and pick one that has a topic you find interesting. Please avoid topics that are very close to your own–choose something new! If some presentations are inaccessible due to technology issues, you can notify me and/or […]
Participation Post for “Music and Nation” | Week of 4/29-5/6
To receive participation points for this unit, please leave a comment on this post with your responses to the questions asked in the lecture videos for Music and Nation. Like with blog posts, you are also expected to leave a substantial comment in response to one of your classmates. You can access the lecture videos […]
Prompt for Blog 8
In this unit, we considered how music comes to carry political meaning. In some cases, different groups of listeners will hear completely opposite political messages in the same song, like Bruce Springsteen’s song “Born in the USA”. Find a piece of political protest music that we haven’t discussed in class–a song that was either created […]
Prompt for Blog 7
For this blog, I want you to consider the music and dance of the Mevlevi, part of the mystical Sufi tradition of Islam, in relation to any of the spiritual/religious music that we discussed last week: Buddhist chant; gospel music (Amazing Grace); Western art music in the Christian church; or music in the synagogue (Salomon […]
Participation Post for “Music and Spirituality” | Week of 4/22-4/29
To receive participation points for this unit, please leave a comment on this post with your responses to the questions asked in the lecture videos for Music and Spirituality. Like with blog posts, you are also expected to leave a substantial comment in response to one of your classmates. You can access the lecture videos […]
(Extra Credit) Participation Post for Music and Gender | Week of 4/15-4/22
To receive five points of extra credit, please leave a comment on this post with your responses to the questions asked in the lecture videos for Music and Gender. Like with blog posts, you are also expected to leave a substantial comment in response to one of your classmates. You can access the lecture videos […]
Prompt for Blog 6
Our theme this week was “Music and Ethnicity,” where ethnicity was defined as “a group of people bound by shared culture, including social customs, values and beliefs, and perhaps common language, religion, and ancestry.” Considering your own background, do a little research and tell us about a genre of music associated with your ethnicity. (Remember […]
Participation Post for Music and Ethnicity | Week of 4/1-4/8
To receive participation points for this unit, please leave a comment on this post with your responses to the questions asked in the lecture videos for Music and Ethnicity. Like with blog posts, you are also expected to leave a substantial comment in response to one of your classmates. You can access the lecture videos […]
Participation Post for “Music and Dance” | Week of 3/25–4/1
To receive participation points for this unit, please leave a comment on this post with your responses to the questions asked in the lecture videos for Music and Dance. Like with blog posts, you are also expected to leave a substantial comment in response to one of your classmates. You can access the lecture videos […]
Prompt for Blog 5
In our Music in Concert video lectures, we discussed different concert traditions: the jazz club, the chamber music recital, the symphony orchestra concert, and a performance of Hindustani classical music. You can see performance videos for each setting, along with a concert of classical Hindustani music in our video lectures or separately at these links: […]
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