Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Upload Your Blog Addresses

Once you get your blog up'n'running, please click this link and upload the necessary information -- your blog address (ie, this one/mine is ausb310summer15.blogspost.com) and your Antioch email address.  (I like to have them all in one spot.)

Thinking About Genre and Conventions Through Country Music

I wanted to post these videos to help you (re)consider the following questions which can, hopefully, help you to think about the relationship between genres and their conventions:
  • what's the "glue" that binds these songs together? 
  • what about them makes them fall into the “country music” category?
  • at what points do they bend/blend into other genres (such as folk, blues, and bluegrass)?


"Your Cheating Heart"


"Coal Miner’s Daughter"


"Whiskey River"



"I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow"




Anonymous Question Forum

310rs: every quarter, I put together this Google Doc for students to post questions that they'd like to ask me but don't feel comfortable to ask in class.  (I've been there, so I get it.)  I'll try my best to check this every two or three days, but please be patient in case it ever takes longer than that.

Also, I hope you know that I genuinely love when you ask me questions -- it shows that you care and that you want to do well, and those are both great things.

Syllabus

Our syllabus is posted on Sakai, but here's another link to it just for good measure. (Click "here" in the previous sentence.)