Summer Office Hours

For details of my summer office hours, see here.

Have a great summer!

Sample Essay Questions

Here are the sample essay questions with instructions.

Remember:
Check with me to see how many to do.
If you want to write about a different topic, then check with me first.

Enjoy!

Class notes for Summer Semester (2016-17) test for credit

Here is a link to the class notes.

Please let me know if you have trouble downloading or opening it.

All answers to the questions on the Test for Credit (June 09, 2017) can be found in the notes (which you may bring to class in paper, not digital, form).

Good luck on the test!

Lyrics for June 02, 2017

Here are the lyrics for this week, a little late, but....

See y'all in class!

Listening list with a mystery theme for June 02, 2017

Here’s the listening list for this week, extra credit to anyone who can figure out the theme (yes, there is one!) The lyrics should be up tomorrow by 20.00 or so.

Notes should be ready by Wednesday with any luck.

Stormy Weather

Ethel Waters (1933)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zywZUhaUqMo

One for my baby (and one for the road)

Lena Horne (1945)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rypt-BMD_w

Tired

Pearl Bailey (1945)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz5gV6_MRoQ

Blue moon

Billy Eckstine (1948)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g83L5M_8Nt8

Nature boy

Nat King Cole (1948)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQerH4nRTUA

Banana Boat Song

Harry Belafonte (1956)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMigXnXMhQ4

Wonderful wonderful

Johnny Mathis (1957)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7wr2FBxcyI

Chi il bel sogno di Doretta

Leontyne Price (1960)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXhFiUaNksU

Guess who I saw today

Nancy Wilson (1960)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFbDj5RBouE

Do you know the way to San Jose?

Dionne Warwick (1967)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnzTgUc5ycc

Wedding bell blues

The 5th Dimension (1969)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhtCGZbxTfc

Kiss an angel good morning

Charley Pride (1971)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-pU-DHEVaU

Some auxiliary vidoes

Ethel Waters singing "His Eye is on the Sparrow" in the 1952 movie "Member of the wedding"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gua-NE8y8lE

Pearl Bailey and Nat King Cole (1957 TV)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jmnx49qMs2U

Harry Belafonte British pop singer Petula Clark in 1968

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQXVjY1oqRo

Ethel Waters singing Suppertime on TV in 1969

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5Zvjjbc-Hk

Pearl Bailey doing Hello Dolly! (Tony Awards 1968) Pearl's part begins around 3.45

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4eS0x16v1k

Pearl Bailey with Ethel Waters (around 1969)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpSmPaisB6o

Charley Pride and Johnny Cash (in 1969)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=276aBrM2-FM

The Pointer Sisters singing Fairytale (1974)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQWgKvvbT1g

Leontyne Price at the White House (around 1980)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGwyXrWuSyw

No listening list this week...

No listening list this week....

Class will be a surprise! (or trainwreck.... we'll see)

Listening list for May 19, 207

Here's the listening list for this week. There won't be lyrics because..... too much work.... :(

The songs or more or less in chronological order from 1980 -1992

Rapture

Blondie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHCdS7O248g

Wordy Rappinghood

Tom Tom Club

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Vl1m5FYlAo

Double Dutch Bus

Frankie Smith

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fK9hK82r-AM

The Message

Grandmaster Flash

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PobrSpMwKk4

Roxanne Roxanne

UTTO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KpngczmD7Q

Human Beat Box

Fat Boys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJewbFZHI34

World Destruction

Time Zone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5S-q1gRxvw

Walk This Way

Run D.M.C.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B_UYYPb-Gk

You gotta fight (for your right)

Beastie Boys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBShN8qT4lk

Push it

Salt 'n Peppa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCadcBR95oU

Supersonic

J.J. Fad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3nPLoODtGU

Straight outa Compton

N.W.A.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMZi25Pq3T8

Me so horny

Two Live Crew

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6VTj7LhCtE

Fight the Power

Public Enemy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PaoLy7PHwk

Poor Georgie

M.C. Lyte

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r5MzLsaVWc

Sometimes I rhyme slow

Nice and Smooth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgXQ3hEIDMA

My definition of boombastic jazz style

Dream Warriors

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoE5yHMrP0A

Set adrift on memory bliss

P.M. Dawn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AOVf9p9ht4

Tennessee

Arrested Development

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VCdJyOAQYM

Listening list update

The listening list for this week will be posted tomorrow by 20.00

Listening list for May 12, 2017

Here's the listening list for this week. There won't be lyrics because..... too much work.... :(

Spoken traditions

The Dozens

(from In Living Color)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn5pbHxvChU

Signifying Monkey

(from Dolemite!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Voxp3ckwJZ0

Funk

I feel good

James Brown (1966

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlTRwnjFygU

Earth Wind and Fire

Shining star (1975)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwc0AW67CmA

Early raps

Isaac's rap 2

Isaac Hayes (1972)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfVbrPoLc3w

Woman's viewpoint

Irma Thomas (1973)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_TYYhrWIxY

The Rap (interlude in If lovin' you is wrong (I don't wanna be right))

Millie Jackson (1974)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G-UAsJ61Zs

Jamaica

Fire Corner

King Stitt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts_sJbr1Mhc

Dread beat an' blood

Linton Kwesi Johnson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwDnb_u1-kg

Proto-rap

Here come the judge

Pigmeat Markham (1968)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRS62nccwmw

Turn the beat around

Vicki Sue Robinson (1976) (short rap like section around 1.40)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRSzZsQV5fc

First rap records

King Tim III (Personality jock)

Fatback band (1978)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojQqAnlrW_M

Rapper's delight

Sugarhill gang (1978) (esp from 9.30 to 10.30)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAnojTvyc0g

Lyrics for class May 05, 2017

Here are provisional lyrics for this week, I'll probably change the list a little and bring them to class too.  Note the addition of a couple of different songs

Summer (the first time)

Millie Jackson (1974)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5WloI3eJC8

City in the sky

Staple Singers (1974)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwObcvYvRCU