Week 08: Elvis Presley

Elvis Presley, "Can't Help Falling in Love" (1961)

Week 08: Elvis Presley
Mo 10.07

• Read: WARS—“We’re Not Role Models” – “Nobody Talks about the Positive in Hip Hop”

• Class: Reading discussion; Watch—Excerpts from And You Don’t Stop: 30 Years of Hip-Hop from VH1 (2004)
• Due: INFOGRAPHIC (FINAL DRAFT; ATTACH DRAFT 1 TO BACK)

Tu 10.08

• Read: WARS—“We’re Not Role Models” – “Nobody Talks about the Positive in Hip Hop” 
• Class: Reading discussion; Multimedia presentations; Watch—Excerpts from And You Don’t Stop: 30 Years of Hip-Hop from VH1 (2004) 
• Due: INFOGRAPHIC (FINAL DRAFT; ATTACH DRAFT 1 TO BACK); REFLECTION 05

We 10.09

• Read: WARS—“Mutual Denials in the Hip Hop Wars” – “Six Guiding Principles for Creativity, Consumption, and Community in Hip Hop and Beyond”
• Class: Reading discussion; Multimedia presentations
• Due: REFLECTION 05 

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Week 09: Tony Bennett
Mo 10.14

• Read: SONG—“Your Love is the Place Where I Come From” – “You Had Time”
• Class: Writers workshop; Multimedia presentations
• Due: EDITORIAL ESSAY (DRAFT 1; BRING 3 COPIES)

Tu 10.15

• Read: SONG—“Your Love is the Place Where I Come From” – “A Minor Incident;” eR—“Millennials Need to Find a Soundtrack For Their Generation (PolicyMic), “Turn Up That Damned Music!” (Urban Tulsa Weekly)
• Class: Reading discussion; Writers workshop; Multimedia presentations
• Due: EDITORIAL ESSAY (DRAFT 1; BRING 3 COPIES)

We 10.16

• Read: SONG—“I’ve Had It” – “A Minor Incident;” eR—“Millennials Need to Find a Soundtrack For Their Generation (PolicyMic), “Turn Up That Damned Music!” (Urban Tulsa Weekly)
• Class: Reading discussion; Multimedia presentations