Because the end of the semester is so quickly approaching (how did this happen?!) and we have just one more regular class meeting on Thursday April 23, I've included two posts for material I'd like to have covered in more depth--but which I want you to have in any case.
Week 12a. Agustín Lara. Includes a cd download with a good selection of Lara's songs, and suggestions as to how you can look into his life--including the excellent chapter in Yolanda Moreno Rivas. There are also some key Agustín Lara links from YouTube. Our song will be Farolito.
Week 12b. This is where I'd like you to concentrate. The READING (a story, set in Los Angeles in about 1950, is important--and memorable. So make it your primary reading for the week. The song is Sin Tí (and, when you reach the end of the story, the Arsenio Rodríguez bolero, La Vida es un Sueño.
Both great songs)--both figure in the story and will give you lots to think about.
In a sense, reading Ry Cooder's story will return us to the starting point of the semester (Don Tosti's Pachuco Boogie, and that first chapter from Octavio Paz, Pachucos y otros extremos). Let's see if it appears to us differently now...
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EXHIBICION, PACHANGA Y NOCHE de CANCIÓN. Our final Thursday will be April 30 (last regular night of classes). we'll use the time for a get together--invite all your friends, with refreshments, a potluck, projects on all the walls (a semester review of your work--we'll discuss) and a chance to spend another evening together cantando... Dicen ahorita a sus compañeros para que sepan que están invitados!
Thursday, 30 April
Visual Studies 185X: Songs & Places: México
Exhibición, Pachanga, y Noche de Canto
6-10 pm, Room 170
Todos bienvenidos!
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