Posted in Madonna, singers on September 12, 2007 | No Comments »
So I was in the cafe this afternoon after teaching my rock class, and “Like a Virgin” was playing on the radio. I was singing along with the verse, before the first chorus, and nodding my head and grinning up a storm. Go figure. It made me think of my dear friend [...]
Posted in Madonna, bad music, manifestos, meta, navel gazing, teaching on August 29, 2007 | 8 Comments »
My first post, and a bit of a meta-post. Navel gazing, and probably not even worthy of the term manifesto, though it leans in that direction:
In my two seminars this semester–”Rock Studies,” and “Jazz and the World”–I asked on the first day, “why study this?” An innocuous quesiton, and one that has plenty [...]
