What's Scheduled for this Week:
COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING TASKS:
-
First, listen to my short
weekly audio lecture. You can listen to the
lecture in either Real Audio format or you can listen
to the lecture in Windows Media format.
- Next, explore the following links:
- Visit the Mudcat Cafe--an
electronic magazine dedicated to blues and folk music. It has a
searchable database of over 6000 traditional folk songs, links to the
best Internet blues, and quite a bit on the history of blues.
- Tap your feet! You have to visit the BluesWeb
- And, for the real blues lovers, visit the Blue Highway--an
interactive biographical encyclopedia of
blues.
- Folk "hollering" is a most interesting type of wordless
folksong. If you have the RealPlayer G2, you can listen to a few
hollers from the University of North Carolina. You can also hear a collection of
bawdy ballads if you wish.
- Soldiers during the Vietnam war often created folksongs
(often by changing the words to a popular song melody). You can read
about and hear
such songs at the Songs of Americans in the Vietnam War site.
- The WPA California Folk Music Project [1938-40] was the
result of a joint effort of the Work Projects Administration, the
Library of Congress, and the Music Division of the University of
California,Berkeley. If you have RealPlayer, you can listen to a
number of ethnic folk recordings made in Northern California in 1939.
- One more folk
music link
- The Folk
Micro-Encyclopeida has lots of information about the folk music of
England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and America.
- Ballad
style
- Childs
ballads
- Visit a link that has lots of Sea Shanties (or sea chanty) to
look over
- If interested in a specific type of folk music or world
music, visit
the Ethnomusicology, Folk Music, and World Music site of University of
Washington.
Review the Homefun on folksongs and ballads (this in not
a graded homefun option)
Take a short
quiz on folksongs and ballads
Read pp 369--404
Post to the
weekly discussion
board