• Wesley Morris, ‘For centuries, black music, forged in bondage, has been the sound of complete artistic freedom. No wonder everybody is always stealing it’, New York Times (14 August 2019). Morris talks further with The Times’ Nikole Hannah-Jones about the subject of his essay on this sometimes-hilarious NYT podcast. Have a listen!

Asynchronous Learning

• Open an hypothes.is account. Make at least one annotation in our reading group. Extra props if you also comment on someone else’s annotation! Note: This is not a graded assignment: this is your chance to familiarise yourself with this platform in advance of future assignments!

For Next Time (Thursday 10/1)

• Gilbert B. Rodman, ‘Race … and Other Four-Letter Words: Eminem and the Cultural Politics of Authenticity’, in Forman and Neal (2012)