Here’s the assignment:
Presentation (30% of grade)
You will individually prepare and present on a music scene not covered in either my book or Michael Azerrad’s Our Band Could Be Your Life. You may pick a scene from any point in time, but you must email me as soon as possible for my approval. If a scene is chosen more than once, the first emailer will get it. I will notify the other student to make another selection.
Your presentation will be 5 – 10 minutes in length. You will describe the scene, in terms of its bands, musical styles, and culture, and will cover significant bands and influences to other bands that came out of that city. You may use whatever presentation media/approaches you’d like including actively engaging discussion, power point, Youtube, whatever…bring in your guitar and play if you want to—just make it compelling.
Here are the chosen scenes so far:
London
Blues/rock 1960s; Punk 1970s
Liverpool
1950s/early 1960s…some popular band came from there…I’ve heard
San Francisco
Psych 1960s
Providence, RI
Alt rock
Chicago
Blues 1940s/1950s
Los Angeles
Female bands, 1970s; Hair metal, 1970s/1980s
Orange County, CA
Ska 1990s
Nashville
Country 1950s/1980s
Japan
Visual Kei
Chicago/Milwaukee
Emo/hardcore 1990s
New York City
Jazz 1920s
Detroit
Motown, 1960s/1970s
