Week 3: Foo Fighters

Foo Fighters, "Everlong" (1997)

Week 3: Foo Fighters (Tu 9.1/Th 9.3)
Listen: DB—Hip Hop Wars music primer
Read: WARS—Chapters 1, 3; eR—"You Are What You Hear: What Your Favorite Music Says About You" (NPR Music), "Six Songs of Me" (GuardianMusic), "Does Music Define You?" (NPR Music), "Music Defines Me" (Aggie Central), "The Sound of a Generation” (NPR Music), "The Songs That Define Us" (ConversantLife)
Class: Presentation assignments; Watch—Excerpts from And You Don’t Stop: 30 Years of Hip-Hop (VH1); Lectures—"Building a Better Multimedia Presentation" and "MLA Style: An Introduction"
Due: REFLECTION 2

Upcoming:

Week 4: Alicia Keys

Tu 9.8/Th 9.10

Read: WARS—Chapters 4-5, 7; eR—"Millennials Need to Find a Soundtrack For Their Generation" (Mic), "I Haz Music: Choosing a Musical Genre to Define Millennials" (Mic)

Class: Reading discussion; Watch—“Gospel for Teens” (60 Minutes); Lecture—“Crafting the Essay: Writing as a Process”