Welcome to IFS: Music, Identity, and Global Citizenship

Who are you? How did you get here? In what ways do you identify your music? And how do you identify yourself through music?

As an Intensive Freshman Seminar we will be using our many cross-cultural case studies as a springboard for further discussion on local, national, and global issues. At the heart of these discussions, however, will be investigating the role of expressive culture in articulating myriad identity formations.

Monday, August 1, 2011

Songprint!


Greetings IFS'ers:

Today was a great class.  I am extremely excited to get the chance to get to know you all during this class.  Now that we have started making the connections between music and identity, our first writing exercise invloves creating a musical songprint.  For this exercise you will need to assemble your collection of music tracks into a coherent narrative, introducing who you are, where you are from, what kind of life you lead, and what you value. 


Think about the connections we spoke about today: connections between memory, experience, identity, and values.  What is it about these songs that resonates with you?  And how do you use these songs to identify yourself to others?

 Embed YouTube clips for each of your selected songs into your blog post, separating each with a brief narrative statement explaining its significance to your life.

I can't wait to see what you come up with!
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