Music of the 30s

Hat tip to Mike M. - - who emailed this info about a concert on Treasure Island this Saturday, November 1:

MILL VALLEY PHILHARMONICPRESENTS

The Works Progress Administration:
Orchestral Music and Art of the 1930s

SPONSORED BY TREASURE ISLAND DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY


CELBRATE THE 75^TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SIGNING OF THE NEW DEALAND THE HISTORY OF YOUR OWN COMMUNITY BY ATTENDING A FREE CONCERT

More info here.

Radical Poetry (for Tuesday, October 23, 2008)

It took me a while to transcribe the poems - -but here's a selection of poetry from the 1935 anthology, Proletarian Literature in the United States. (You can print out the web page - - or download the .pdf file.) You can also read Joseph Freeman's introduction to the whole anthology here.

Hemingway, for Thursday, October 16

Read In Our Time up to Chapter XIII. Don't forget to give your hi-liter a workout on The Battler. And, don't forget to head over to the Eliot wiki to work on your motif entry.

Hemingway, "In Our Time"

Forgot to mention this on Thursday: you want to read up to Chapter 7 in Hemingway's "In Our Time." I.e. past the end of "A Very Short Story."

Got a blog?

Mike M. told me about his blog on Thursday. I noticed that a couple of other students also have blogs. If you have a blog, enter your blog url in the comments section of this post. I'll start up a list of blogs here on our motherblog. Let's get blogrolling!

Eliot Wiki

The Eliot wiki is up and running. Click here to access it. The home page contains some instructions about using a wiki. The "Project Page" contains more detailed instructions about how to use the wiki for our project. Be sure to read it. If you have questions or problems after you've looked at the wiki and tried to enter your contributions, use the "threads" feature of the wiki to communicate the questions, problems, issues to me and your classmates. (Instructions on how to do this are on the wiki home page.)

Work on adding and elaborating motifs for next class. I.e. by Tuesday morning, your motif pages should be stuffed full of text, ideas, insights, and truthiness.

Enjoy!