Prep
- Benedict Carey, ‘In Music, Others’ Tastes May Help Shape Your Own’, New York Times (14 February 2006)
- Audio: ‘How to Listen to Music in 4 Easy Steps’, Switched on Pop 50
- Join our Slack workspace!
- Attendance
- Small Group Introductions
- Overview: Final Project
- Q&A/Introductions: How to Listen to Music
- Reading Notes for Next Time
- Craig Castleman, ‘The Politics of Graffiti’, in Forman and Neal (2012); also available in Forman and Neal (2004)
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Video: Style Wars (Henry Chalfant and Tony Silver, 1983). The seminal documentary of graffiti and b-boying’, writes Jeff Chang in one of our upcoming texts (‘Zulus on a Time Bomb’). You should be able to view this film for free on vudu.com, but if there’s a problem, here’s a link that’s currently working on YouTube. We’ll screen this together in class, but make sure you review it later at home, too.
Hey, how’s it going! I’m really excited for this class
I’m excited for the first class of sesmester!
Hi. I am unable to join the slack discussion. My email is desireebetts123@gmail.com I’m not sure if you sent the invite to the proper email.