PRESENTATIONS— Include short snippets of more than one and answer the below 6 qestions.
I’ll want a bit of paperwork on each presentation; you can use that to help give it some focus and detail.
These will be the standard questions; my answers are specific to an example I might use. You would likely have more discussion than I have here, but I wanted to give you an idea of the form.
1) What is the work and who created it?
This is “Within you Without You” from the White Album by the Beatles, 1967.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2dMSfmUJec
2) What is their background? Are they part of a particular school or movement?
They were the first hugely successful rock and roll band. Howard Goodall argues that they saved music. They were mostly self-taught, although their producer, George Martin, had a background in classical music.
3) Who influenced them/him?
They loved Elvis and Chuck Berry. But they had also recently discovered Indian music and philosophy. Ravi Shankar played an instrument called the sitar on this song.
4) Who have they influenced?
Foo Fighters, the Eagles, the Beach Boys, Heart, Billy Joel, and a lot more.
5) What is significant or important about this work?
One point of significance was that this was the real introduction of the sitar to a Western audience (although “Love You Too” from Revolver had used Indian music, this song and album were far more popular and ground-breaking).
6) What are we listening/watching for?
Besides the eerie effect of “double-tracking” and the unusual tones of the instruments used, I think the lyrics are beautiful and deserve consideration for their meaning.
Due to the size of the class and the possibility of technology turning on us. we may be doing presentations in any combination of these three methods:
1) Completely live, Zooming from one base to another for the supporting materials (videos, songs, power points, images, etc.)
2) Pre-sending the supporting materials by at least 48 hours prior to the class and then discussing the work in class. You might include some notes with those materials.
3) Completely online presentations. It need not be PowerPoint, but you would
need a document covering the issues and information. ATTACHED IS A MOVIE PRESENTATION SAMPLE
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