ENGLISH 1A: DON'T STOP THE MUSIC

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

Monday, December 2, 2013

Music News 12.02.13


  • Garth Brooks trounces Lady Gaga (and The Muppets) on TV (Entertainment Weekly)
  • Arcade Fire and Sienfeld go oddly well together (Gawker)
  • The Archbishop of Canterbury: Madonna, Ozzy Osbourne, Katy Perry robbing the Crucifix of its power (Express)
  • On NBC, The Sound of Music goes live (Kansas City Star)
  • Also ... Carrie Underwood on Sound of Music remake backlash: "I know I'm not Julie [Andrews]. Nobody is and I would never pretend that I was … I know my place. (New York Daily News)
  • Now you can own the latest Christmas album from ... the cast of Duck Dynasty (Wall Street Journal) 

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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

Archive

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      • Week 16: Nirvana
    • ►  November (11)
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    • ►  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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