Housekeeing
Graded quizzes
Reading responses still due. Keep those up.
Quiz two is next week, start preparing for that; for those of you who didn’t do as well as you hoped, schedule office hours with me to go over what you can do to improve.
Readings
- Raeburn, Bruce
- Into the Between
- What does this title, in and of itself, tell us about what jazz represents in the mythology of American popular music?
- Can someone define interstiial?
- Lets name 3 ways that Raeburn demonstrates this in-between-ness.
- Are you convinced by his larger argument?
- How can we incorporate aspects of, for example, power in this in-between-ness?
- Is this a convincing way to think about jazz given what you know?
- Byrd, Jodi
- Space rather than temporality… What does it mean?
- How does place map on to power?
- We always want to be aware of who yeilds power in these scenarios.
- If we understand place as being the modus operandi of modes of relationships for Native Americans and Black Americans, does it help or hurt our understandings of power?
Alternative Assignment
- Connect the above questions to these musical examples:
- Raeburn, Bruce
- Second Line Parade in Memory of Trumpeter Abram Wilson
- Byrd, Jodi
- No assignment for the Byrd; just make sure you’ve read and understood the main arguments about space as a theoretical framework and how it differs from place and time.