Music 201 - 02/16/06 - Period 7 - Class #11
Roster
Bernadette, Pip
Blank, Martin
Callisto
Carlyle, Boone
Carson, Bridge - TA's assistant
Chase, Angela
Crichton, John - TA
Ford, James
Gavin, Jake Jr
Hopeless-Savage, Skank Zero
McDonald, Lindsey
Mitchell, Cameron
O'Neill, Jack
Potter, Harry
Solo, Han
Stevens, Isobel
Sullivan, Chloe
Today's junk food of choice is deep fried food. There are piles of deep fried foods on the round table. What's actually inside? Well, that's open for interpretation. There'd definitely be some kind of deep fried Twinkie in there.
"Hey dudes. Sorry about ditching you last week. But I hear Little Boy Blue Eyes Dude did a most excellent job in teaching you about the music from the Uncharted Territories. It's Uncharted, so we don't really know what's out there.
But today we're gonna talk about a place that we do know a little bit about. The Rim. See, in one of the futures, people leave Earth and then go and live on planets somewhere else. And then there was this war where the central planets had a government who were all 'Dudes, let us tell you what to do!' and the Independents were all 'Make me!' and the government was all 'Kay.' And so they had this big, like, war and the Independents lost but still totally refused to go hang out with the pencil-pushing government geeks, so they kept moving out and out into the planets on the Rim. It was totally like pioneering the Old West like my good friend Mr Billy the Kid did.
Uh, anyway. On the Rim people are cut off a lot and they have to go back to the old ways of, like, using fiddles and pipes and woodwind stuff and guitars to make their music, because they don't have any of the high tech stuff. And it turns out that their music is a lot like the music you associate with the Wild West here on Earth. Here's an example."
Ted played an example of a ballad from the Rim.
"So you see, different types of music can repeat in a society as time goes on. What happens a few hundred years ago can go through a cycle and get popular again when the situation is right. This kinda gives the feeling that music gets popular depending on what the real world situation's like. A certain kind of music came about in the Wild West when people were lonely and traveling into the unknown. Then a few hundred years later, when people were doing the same thing, the same kind of music came out again with a few changes. So dudes. Music never dies. It just sorta lays low for a while."
Discussion: "Pick a type of music from the past or present and think about what you think it would take for that type of music to come back and be really popular again. What kind of real life stuff would have to be going on for people to identify with it and take it on as their own?"
Assignment: "You'll get your assignment grades back next week. I'm still waiting on a few more people to hand theirs in. If you get it in by next week, there's still a chance you can pass."
[OOC: Classes are open until Monday 6pm EST for commenting. I still don't have assignments from Jack and Han. Boone is excused for the project. Callisto and Zero have an extension. If you need one, drop Ted a voicemail or hop into his office hours. The extension will be until Thursday next week. After that, you flunk.]