Select one song from materials provided in this week’s Lesson 1, 2 and 3 materials, mixtape, or in the lectures OR anything mentioned in the course to create a total of 3 songs to submit to the Listening Journal #1). If one lesson has more songs and artists mentioned, you are welcome to concentrate on the music from that lesson as well!
There are plenty to choose from, but if you want to choose something different, select a song or artist from the same period or style from the material covered each week. You may review any song as long as it is hip-hop. If you are unsure, please get clearance from the instructor first.
Read “Active Listening or ‘How To Listen To Hip-Hop’” for guidance and ideas. You may find it helpful to follow one of the sample templates (linked below), which are intended to guide you in writing your journal, but you do not have to follow them. However, if you do follow one of the templates, you will ensure that you are including all the required elements to complete the journals correctly.
[3] Although there is a considerable amount of literature on the use of music in elementary education classrooms (often in the vein of using music as a memory tool or a means of drawing students together, or even “how playing classical music in the background helps children focus”), as well as a number of pedagogical resources for teaching music history and music theory (perhaps most notably the Journal of Music History Pedagogy and the Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy), there are fewer resources on effective practices for employing musical examples when teaching broader concepts in undergraduate classrooms more generally.
[4] For more on active learning, see, for example: Michael Prince, “Does Active Learning Work? A Review of the Research” Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 93 No. 3, 2004: 223-231.
[5] I am indebted to James Hepokoski for these particular terms and ways of thinking about different types of listening.
[6] Molly Worthen. “Lecture Me. Really.” (Links to an external site.) The New York Times, 17 October 2015.
[7] Charles William Eliot, Addresses at the Inauguration of Charles William Eliot as President of Harvard College, October 19, 1869. Server & Francis, 1869: 42.
