Emotion and meaning in music

 greetings everyone:

great job today. I really enjoyed hearing about your musical songprint. I especially appreciate all of your hard work in working through yesterday's reading assignment. These are not easy concepts to learn and master, but over the course of our time together they will be extremely helpful in discussing the ways in which music acquires meaning for its performers and audiences.

 Building from our discussion, today's assignment requires you to create a blog entry on  emotion and meaning and music. I would like you to scour the Internet for video clips that in someway communicate to you feelings of:

•  sadness/mourning
•  joy
•  belonging (what it means to be part of a group...)
•  gender (what it means to be who you are in your body...)

 preface each clip with a brief 6 to 8 sentence explanation of how and in what ways each track communicates meaning to you. Please use the vocabulary we developed in class today when discussing how these particular song clips communicate meaning. (for example, if joy is the interpretant, work backwards through the equation of sign object relations to arrive at this particular piece of music)

 in addition to this, don't forget to read the chapter of your textbook, “habits of the self, identity, and culture.”

 And please don't forget to comment upon two of your classmates blog sites from class today.

 Have a great afternoon, and I will see you tomorrow morning.