Prep

• Charles Holmes, ‘“He Shook the World”: George Floyd’s Legendary Houston Legacy’, Rolling Stone (2 June 2020). This is behind a firewall, but should be accessible from the campus library.
• Audio: ‘Big Floyd and the Rise of Houston Chopped N Screwed Music’, Switched on Pop (9 June 2020)

Zoom Session

1. RIP Screw
2. Q&A: Screw Music as an Aesthetic
3. Q&A: Screw Music and Technology
4. Q&A: DJ Screw’s Legacy
5. RIP Big Floyd
6. Midterm Review
   • ASA Style
   • Looking for Love in All the Wrong Sources: Or, Why You Should Start with Google Scholar
   • Keywords: aesthetic, 
7. For Next Time

• Meaghan Garvey, ‘From Teklife to the Next Life’, Pitchfork Review 6 (Spring 2015)
• Glasspiegel, Willis. 2014. ‘Footwork: 10 Essential Tracks’. An introduction to the long-running Chicago footwork movement—which is marked by hyperspeed dancing and equally frenetic beats—along with a playlist of tracks by innovators including DJ Rashad, DJ Spinn, Traxman, and RP Boo.