This weekend I took on an anthropology assignment, and did some participant observation at a local blues/honkytonk jam session. It was...not GREAT, but fine enough that it made me rethink what I've been planning for the course so far. I wanted to get a start on the student ecology project, in the case that I end up there, but it seems like focusing more closely on social-rhetorical projects make sense.
I recently presented the Captain America (a Burkean influenced reading of identification) paper at the Folklore conference in Indiana. If I think of IT as a chapter, as I had originally planned, and manage another chapter in an ethnomusicology direction with this "rhetoric of the jam session" (god that's awful titling) idea...it seems both easier, and more interesting to the final project.
We'll see....
Monday, April 6, 2009
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
