WEEK 02: MADONNA

Madonna, "Take a Bow" (US #1, 1994)

Week 02: Madonna

Mo 08.27

Class: Introductions; Lecture—“A PowerPoint Presentation How-to”

We 08.29

Read: eR—“Does Pop Sound Louder, Dumber, and More and More the Same? One Study Says So” (Slate), “Growing Up Gaga” (New York), “Musicians' Brains Might Have an Edge on Aging” (US News & World Report), “Stanford Researcher Maps Melodies Used in Holocaust to Control Prisoners” (Stanford University)

Class: Lecture—“Writing as a Process”

Upcoming:

Week 03: Buddy Holly & The Crickets

Mo 09.03

NO CLASS—LABOR DAY

We 09.05

Read: BRAIN—“I Love Music and I Love Science—Why Would I Want to Mix the Two?” – “Behind the Curtain” 

Class: DIAGNOSTIC ESSAY 

Due: REFLECTION 01