ENGLISH 1A: DON'T STOP THE MUSIC

DH De La O, The Department of English and Comparative Literature at San José State University

Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Music News 10.01.13


    • Madonna debuts gritty "secretprojectrevolution," promoting worldwide freedom of expression (Huntington Post)
    • Glee goes Beatles-esque (Entertainment Weekly)
    • Walking is for losers: Bodyguards carry Justin Bieber up The Great Wall of China (CNN)
    • Not laughing: Kanye unhappy with Jimmy Kimmel spoof (New York Daily News)
    • Court: Wade Robinson's sex assault case against Michael Jackson's estate may proceed (Mirror)
    • Diddy developing his own 24-hour music video channel (Time)

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    Course Information

    DH De La O,
    The Department of English
    & Comparative Literature
    at San José State University

    English 1A: Don't Stop the Music
    Fall 2013

    Email: dhdelao@gmail.com

    Office Hours: Mo/We 9:00 - 10:00 AM, FOB 111

    Section 03 (40347): Mo/We 7:30 - 8:45 AM, BBC 120

    Section 23 (40358): Mo/We 10:30 - 11:45 AM, CL 216

    Section 86 (50011): Tu 6:00 - 8:45 PM, HGH 217

    Syllabus

    • Fall 2013

    Slected Posts

    • Editorial Essay: The Hip Hop Wars
    • Expository Essay: This is Your Brain on Music
    • Inforgraphic: A History of Music Playback Technologies
    • Multimedia Presentations, Sec. 03
    • Multimedia Presentations, Sec. 23
    • Multimedia Presentations, Sec. 86
    • Reflection 01: Been Around the World—Exploring International Music
    • Reflection 02: Reel Songs—Music in Movies
    • Reflection 03: Just Sing, Sing a Song—The Disappearance of Singing in Public
    • Reflection 04: All On My Own—About Breakup Songs
    • Reflection 05: As Heard on TV—Music and Commercials
    • Reflection 06: A Little Mood Music—Creating an Annotated Playlist
    • Reflection 07-A: Under the Covers—The Science of Cover Songs
    • Reflection 07-B: Guilty as Charged—Confessing Our Musical Guilty Pleasures
    • Reflection 08: Snowed Out—The Christmas Music Avalanche
    • Week 01: Prince
    • Week 02: The Beach Boys
    • Week 03: Bruce Springsteen
    • Week 04: Mariah Carey
    • Week 05: Patsy Cline
    • Week 06: Carlos Santana
    • Week 07: Blondie
    • Week 08: Elvis Presley
    • Week 09: Tony Bennett
    • Week 10: Queen
    • Week 11: Kanye West
    • Week 12: ABBA
    • Week 13: The Supremes

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        • Reflection 07-A: Under the Covers—The Science of C...
        • Week 11: Kanye West
        • Music News 10.21.13
        • Week 10: Queen
        • Music News 10.15.13
        • Reflection 06: A Little Mood Music—Creating an Ann...
        • Week 09: Tony Bennett
        • Music News 10.09.13
        • Editorial Essay: The Hip Hop Wars
        • Week 08: Elvis Presley
        • Music News 10.01.13
      • ►  September (15)
      • ►  August (10)

    eReader

    • "70 Best Infographics on the Web" (Creative Bloq)
    • "A Guide to Writing about Music, Pt. 2: Thinking" (Invisible Oranges)
    • "Does Music Define You?" (NPR Music)
    • "How The Hot 100 Became America's Hit Barometer" [WWNO]
    • "Infographics: Separating the Great from the Mediocre" (The Next Web)
    • "Is 'Blurred Lines' a 'Rapey' Song?" [Wall Street Journal]
    • "Look for Music" (Harvard Gazette)
    • "Millennials Need to Find a Soundtrack For Their Generation" (PolicyMic)
    • "Music Defines Me" (Aggie Central)
    • "Peter Gabriel's 'Interspecies Internet'" (PRI)
    • "Six Songs of Me" (GuardianMusic)
    • "The Look of Music" (Harvard Gazette)
    • "The NPR 100: The Most Important American Musical Works of the 20th Century" (NPR)
    • "The Sound of a Generation" (NPR Music)
    • "Turn Up That Damned Music!" (Urban Tulsa Weekly)
    • "What Makes a Great Infographic?" (DashBurst)
    • "Writing about Music" (University of Calgary)
    • "You Are What You Hear: What Your Favorite Music Says About You" (NPR Music)
    • "You Suck at Infographics" (Wired)

    LearningCurve

    • Fall 2013

    Dropbox

    • Citing Sources in MLA - The Basics
    • Close Reads - A How-To
    • Dept. Reading Assessment Rubric
    • Engaging Writing as a Process
    • Process Essay Sample 1
    • Process Essay Sample 2

    Infographics

    • http://www.easel.ly/
    • Infogr.am
    • Piktochart
    • Visual.ly

    Writing Resources

    • DailyGrammar
    • Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library [San Jose State University]
    • Grammar Bytes!
    • Grammar Girl
    • MLA Block Quotations [Northern Oklahoma College]
    • MLA Citation Generator [Palomar College]
    • MLA In-text Parathetical Citation [Duke University]
    • MLA Style Guide [Purdue University]
    • MLA Works Cited Page [Cornell Univeristy]
    • Writing Center [San Jose State University]
    • Online Writing Lab [Purdue Univeristy]

    Music Resources

    • Billboard
    • MTV
    • New Musical Express
    • NPR Music
    • Q
    • Rolling Stone
    • Source
    • Spin
    • Stereogum
    • VH1
    • Vibe

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