Blog Summary For Oct 25th

For the most part there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of blog activity other than required blogs and a couple of exceptions that seem to blog regularly. Liz blogged today expressing her relief at being done with her presentation. (Liz-I really enjoyed the presentation especially the collage guitar that you made...way to incorporate some art in there!) Culture Jammer talked a little bit about the upcoming Jamboree and brought up the idea of doing a mockumentary again. This would be a good way to let people see what the junk band is about if that's what our class ends up doing, but how much time do we have to pull things together before the Jamboree takes place? People should check out I Am Cool Dooner's Blog-he's always got some random blogging going on and it plays music and has pictures to distract those of us with short attention spans. Jacknife blogged about Eagan's performance in class a while back. Check it out...I also meant to do that but never got around to it. It was very cool to get to hear a lot of the banjo styling we've been reading about performed for us in person-it helps a lot for understanding of the music for those of us who are somewhat musically un-inclined (such as myself). Stephanie also had some thoughts as far as the Jamboree goes, check them out on her blog.

People have been working on the podcast blogs and have commented mostly about the wide variety of music offered by the collection and the background of Moses Asch and Harry Smith. Several people used the quote about America changing through music as well as the diversity of the music.

Pandora has also been commented on a couple of times. Dano said that he enjoys listening to the station but wishes he could flip through songs as desired instead of there being limits to the number of songs skipped.

Overall the blogs seem to reflect a generally positive attitude towards the class. Check out Ashley's post from a week or so ago which includes a little overview of class perceptions. There are some that still haven't posted since their initial blogs or since September...get on that! That's all good though as far as I'm concerned, it's less to read.