Discussion from Last Week

Here is what we discussed last week!!!
On Tuesday September 19th we started out class by watching a video about where the blues began. It was a film by Alan Lomax that talked about the blues in the beginning and talked about how the blues began in the Delta. The movie showed many artists playing the blues in different forms. After we stopped watching the video we began to discuss the movie. Some people enjoyed the film because they were able to hear the meaning and feeling of the songs. They also liked it because they were able to figure out why the songs have many repeats. After the movie was finished we began to discuss the second chapter of the Deep Blues. Someone brought up that they could not understand why the author added the story of James Coyner and how he killed a white man, his pregnant wife, their young son, and cut the baby out of the mother's womb. One person thought maybe the author was trying to get across the contreversy between whites and blacks. We did not get to finish the conversation so we said we were going to finish the conversation on Thursday!
Thursday we got to class and Nic had a ton of annoucements to give us. First Nic told us that we would be meeting in the library on Tuesday the 25th to learn how to get/ search books etc. in the library. He told us we were to meet in the lab on the third floor. Then Nic told us that instead of doing a biography on a musician he wants us to do a biography on a song (roots music song). He would like us to try and choose a song by Tuesday next week. Then someone asked when it was actually due and it is due in November. Then Nic annouced that Open Mic night was thursday night at 9:00PM and that he would be performing. After all the annoucements we had a choice of continuing our conversation about the James Coyner Story and why it is there or about Jamboree. We decided to discuss Jamboree. First we went over all the details about Jamboree. We discussed the times and how we each need to work a half an hour at the booth plus we need to do something as a class. So someone asked Nic what other groups had done in the past. He listed some ideas and we actually got an idea from the list of ideas. We decided to do junk band. Then someone brought up that we could do a battle of the bands with the other section of the FYS. We decided that we would do a junk band from 2:00 - 3:00 in Edison Hall. Then someone brought up that maybe we could make our own instruments or have people make instruments during the jamboree. Then time ran out and we decided to continue our discussion on thursday after the library session on Tuesday!