Music in Commercial Space

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Music in Everyday Life: Course Blog

We will use the Music in Everyday Life Blog to further discussion and exploration of material throughout the semester. The blog is on blackboard, and involves two kinds of participation: posting a blog entry, and commenting on others’ blog entries.

Posting a Blog Entry

You are responsible for writing one blog entry during the semester. You will have an assigned week in which to post a blog entry. The content of your post is flexible, but the main idea is to observe something about music in your current everyday life, and to discuss how it relates to topics discussed in class (for example, how it illustrates, provides a counter-example, or compares to something we discussed), and/or frame how it is relevant to but goes beyond what we’ve covered in class – perhaps raising a question about how music works in everyday life to be fruitfully considered together. As with the 24-hour listening notes assignment, part of the goal here is to start noticing more about the music around you and what it is doing. Your entry should not duplicate other assignments for this or other classes (ex. don’t write a blog entry about our field trip to the mall, though you could write about hearing music in a different commercial space at a different time; don’t submit something you wrote for another class, though it would be great to write about how something from another class relates to this one, comparing the different perspectives). If you are unsure about what to write about, feel free to come talk to us about it. The main thing I ask is that you are thoughtful and careful. The basic guidelines for your posts are as follows:

• Your posts should be a minimum of 300 words.
• They should be posted by Monday, by 11.59pm on your assigned week.
• You should maintain a respectful and courteous tone at all times (this also applies to comments on others’ blog entries).
• Your material should be original, with full citations for any material that you quote.
• Plan ahead: if it turns out your Monday deadline falls at an especially busy time, you can post up to four days early, as early as the Thursday before

Posts will be graded as follows:

3: Thoughtful post with careful execution (i.e., proofread for grammatical errors and typos)

2: Solid post, but done hastily (i.e., not as thoughtful as it could be; contains typos)

1: A post, but very sloppy, after the deadline, or otherwise lacking

0: Nothing turned in or too late to receive credit

Commenting

In addition to posting a blog entry, you are asked to read blog entries posted by your fellow classmates and respond by posting a comment at least twice (total), in different weeks. Comments should be posted on the current week’s blog entries by Friday by 11.59pm (though ideally on Tuesday or Wednesday). There is no word limit on responses: they just need to be at least one complete sentence (“lol!” does not count as a complete sentence).

You are welcome to post to the blog as often as you like, provided that you are posting relevant and thoughtful material. Regularly posting and/or commenting on others’ blog entries (i.e. in most weeks) in a way that demonstrates engagement will add to your participation grade. I hope that many of us will get in the habit of reading the blog regularly and sharing material often!