Songs for Sunday's radio show

Remember that our radio show is Sunday from 9:30pm-Midnight. The noon section is taking second shift (from 10:45-midnight), and the 3pm section is opening (from 9:30-10:45pm).

Below are the song lists people generated. For the noon section's list it's not clear to me which songs I need to try to acquire and bring. I'll mark things I have, and things I'm pretty sure someone else has. For things in the unknown category, let me know ASAP if you need me to try to get it. Also, if there are any corrections or additions get in touch ASAP.

These are very cool lists, and I think it'll be a really excellent show!

Noon

Stuff I have

John Lee Hooker - "Boom boom"
Son House - "Death letter"
Patsy Cline - "Strange"
Washington White - "I'm in a heavenly way"
Blind Willie Johnson - "John the Revelator"
Lyle Lovett - "Church"
Robert Johnson - "I believe I'll dust my broom"

Stuff I know a student has

Richard Bona - David has this

Status unknown

Pinetop Perkins - "Big fat mama"
Johnny Cash - "Give my love to Rose"
Johnny Bush - "Long black veil"
Howlin' Wolf - "Spoonful"
Big Bill Broonzy - "Water coast blues"
Snooky Pryor - "Coal black mare"
Dropkick Murphys - "Which side are you one?"
Hank Williams - "Faded loves and winter roses"
Brook Williams - "Chasin' the groove"

3pm

Stuff I have

Muddy Waters - anything
Woody Guthrie - anything
Caballeros Del Norte - Voy a llorar
Charlie Patton - Screamin' and hollerin' the blues
Charlie Daniels - Devil went down to Georgia

Stuff I think I have to get

Chris Thomas King - Hard time killin' floor blues

Stuff I think a student (mostly Emily) has or are in the station

Outkast - Idlewild blues (Don' chu worry bout me)
Black Keys
Decemberists - Mariners revenge song
Richard Thompson (Michael will bring something)
Led Zep - Something from III
Janis Joplin - Summertime
Blues Brothers - Theme from Rawhide (who has this?)
Bele Fleck - Hoe down?
Johnny Cash - Folsom prison blues
Bob Dylan - Subterranean homesick blues
Billie Holiday/Louie Armstrong - A fine romance

Keep your thinking caps on at Jamboree tomorrow

Remember that everyone should spend some time tomorrow going through Jamboree checking out everyone else's stuff. Just as you want people to come by and check out the work you've done, you need to give them the same courtesy. You might want to take some notes, as I'd like to discuss Jamboree some when we meet again next Tuesday. Questions might include:

• What was the general participation like? Did people interact much? What kinds of interactions did they have? Were those interactions mostly superficial, or have some thoughtful content?
• What did the whole set of booths say about human diversity (ostensibly the theme of FYS)?
• What were some booths that you thought were particularly successful in raising important issues or conveying important ideas?
• To what degree does Jamboree (in conjunction with the opening convocation and the common theme) succeed (or not) in generating some sort of "common experience" for first year students?
• What were the strengths and weaknesses of Jamboree as social event? As a piece of academic programming?

Have fun!

Booth sign up times, etc.

In case people don't remember when they've signed up to sit at the booth, I'll post what I have on the sign-up sheet:

• Set-up tonight: Joe, Tyler, David
• 9-9:30am: Mary Beth
• 9:30-10: Dan, Joe
• 10-10:30: Jesh
• 10:30-11: Cassandra, Brady
• 11-11:30: Brandon, Ashley, Michael
• 11:30-noon: Kat, Liz, Michael
• Noon-12:30: Adrienne (and noon section is downstairs dancing)
• 12:30-1pm: Jennie L., Megan (and noon section is downstairs dancing)
• 1-1:30: Christina, Jennifer H.
• 1:30-2: Machelle, Lindsey
• 2-2:30: Kelsey, Adam, Laura
• 2:30-3: Jeff, Andrew, Keli
• Clean up (3 until done): Emily, Tyler, Kelly, and Andrew

Note that Mary Beth is alone at 9, and Jesh is alone at 10, so if anyone can stop by and help them/keep them company I'm sure they'd appreciate it. In particular, we have three people signed up for each of 11, 2, and 2:30, so if any of those nine people wanted to move that would be cool. (If you're planning on moving, could you post a comment on this post to that effect so we don't end up with all three people trying to move from the same slot.)

I came by this evening, and it looks like a computer, projector, and screen are set up, but there is no other evidence of any sort of set up. The posters are still in the classroom (as of 6:30pm), and I have no idea where the movie is so we can test it at the booth. I'm currently at home grabbing some food but will be coming back to burn Adrienne's spiffy lyrics snippets onto CD and move my boombox and headphones over there.

Also, if you're unsure/anxious about what you're supposed to do while you're at the booth, now's a good time to ask. Similarly, if you're in a group and have instructions you want everyone to be aware of while they're holding down the fort, now would be a good time to post that info here or write it up and leave it at the booth.

Video

So... Steph has put in hours and tons of work into our video for tomorrow, so I think she deserves a round of applause. We would have very little for tomorrow without all her work, so thank you Steph!

new Posts

I posted my blog summary for quite some time ago and also a post on last weekend which I spent in Georgia at a protest. check them out!

culturejammer210.blogspot.com

thanks
-Christina

Late Discussion Summary

So this is a super super late class discussion summary. If you care to travel through time and remember what happened say o about a couple weeks ago you will have to check out my blog...... kelseyjowheaton10.blogspot.com
Thanks!
Kelsey jo

Tuesday Noon Section

So class was a little on the small side today, and we wanted to let the rest of you know what we're think about for next week.

The band is hoping to meet next Monday in the HFA at 3:30 so that they can practice a little bit before the Jamboree. At practice they are also going to decide if they will be practicing Tuesday during class.

We're planning to meet in Louie's on Tuesday again so that we can practice swing actually with music this time. Nic-could you bring a CD player for us and I'll see if I can track down a couple of discs of swing music.

We need to get a list of songs together for the radio show. It'd be good if we can all bring at least two ideas for songs to class on Tuesday so that we can compile it into one list which should last for our entire show. Then we can get a copy of our list to the other section so that we can make sure there are no repeats during the FYS radio time.

Everyone have a marvelous break and enjoy Thanksgiving!

Discussion Summary (a little late)

Just put up the Discussion Summary for 11/14/06. It's a little late, I know, I apologize. Just visit my blog >>> nievebloggin’

See you in class,

David

Blog Summery

My Blog Summery is up. Go to the Little Rabbits Blog to read it.

http://thelittlezajicek.blogspot.com/

Blacks imitating whites imitating blacks imitating whites

I'm reading a strange and often incoherent book by Nick Tosches called Where dead voices gather which, for all it's jumping about and disconnected tangents, has a lot of good material in it on the minstrelsy of the 1800s and early 1900s, and their connection to the music we've been studying. In and amongst all his ramblings I just got to this great quote:

As to the true origin of the cakewalk, it is believed to have begun at about the same time as minstrelsy, around 1840, with slaves parodying the formal dances of their masters. These burlesques came to be mimicked [by whites] in minstrel shows. After the Civil War, when blacks entered minstrelsy, they assumed parts in the minstrels' cakewalk. As Terry Waldo puts it in his book This Is Ragtime: "By the time the ragtime era began in 1896, the cakewalk was being performed by blacks imitating whites who were imitating blacks who were imitating whites." I'm sure the gist of this wonderful little observation can, with not much squinting, be applied to the whole of popular culture.

Ah, what wonderful stuff. It reminds me of this excellent essay, "When wrong is right", written by Ed Ward as a companion piece to the PBS documentary on John Lennon's jukebox. In it Ward argues that one of the great strengths of the Beatles' music was that they tried to copy the American R&B they loved and failed. In failing, however, they created new combinations and opened new doors:

This is what makes artists artists: they take little bits of things from here and there and put them together in unexpected combinations that seem new and original. Some of them are pretty obvious: one of Little Richard's trademarks is the "Ooooo!" he interjects into a lot of his hit songs. Richard got it from the world of gospel, where it's a standard of Alex Bradford, among others. The Beatles grabbed this little trick for themselves, and it's all over their first recordings: girls went wild when Lennon and McCartney stepped up to a single microphone, shook their mop tops, and went "Ooooo!".

Makes me want to go off and butcher a good song or two :-).