It's that time of year again....blissfully browsing thru hundreds of course titles for next term...
So far on the list:
1. Education and the Aesthetic Experience
2. Cultural Perspectives in Literature
3. Intro to Digital Photography
4. Jazz and the Literary Imagination.
The last two I'm most excited about. A chance to bolster my camera-whoring pastime while having an excuse to buy an expensive camera? Check! And check out this description of the Jazz/Lit class:
JAZZ W4900y Topics in Jazz
Studies: Jazz and the Literary Imagination (Edwards) MW 10:35-11:50am 3 pts. (Lecture).
This course will focus on the ways that jazz has been a source of
inspiration for a variety of twentieth-century literatures, from the
blues poetry of the Harlem Renaissance to contemporary fiction. We will
consider in detail the ways that writers have discovered or intuited
formal models and political implications in black music. Rather than
simply assume that influence only travels in one direction, we will
also take up some literary efforts (including autobiography, poetry,
historiography, and criticism) by musicians themselves. What are the
links between musical form and literary innovation? How can terms of
musical analysis (improvisation, rhythm, syncopation, harmony) be
applied to the medium of writing? How does music suggest modes of
social interaction or political potential to be articulated in
language? How does one evaluate the performance of a poem (in an oral
recitation or musical setting) in relation to its text? Materials may
include writings and recordings by Jacques Attali, James Weldon
Johnson, Langston Hughes, Louis Armstrong, Zora Neale Hurston, Sterling
Brown, Kurt Schwitters, Ralph Ellison, Amiri Baraka, Ella Fitzgerald,
William Melvin Kelley, Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Gayl Jones, Michael
Ondaatje, Ed Pavlic, Joseph Jarman, Nathaniel Mackey, and Harryette
Mullen, among others. Requirements: weekly response papers, a 5-7 pg.
midterm paper and a 9-12 pg. final paper.
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