Prep
- HW: Respond to the prompt posted in the #general channel of our Slack Workspace.
- Review Benedict Carey, ‘In Music, Others’ Tastes May Help Shape Your Own’, New York Times (14 February 2006)
- Audio: Review ‘How to Listen to Music in 4 Easy Steps’, Switched on Pop 50
In Class
- Attendance/Introductions, cont’d
- Overview: Story Maps
- Q&A: Liner Notes and Le Goût des autres
- Reading Notes for Next Time
- Craig Castleman, ‘The Politics of Graffiti’, in Forman and Neal (2012); also available in Forman and Neal (2004)
- 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.
Hi. I am still 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.