Listening/Viewing Assignment
The following DVDs and CDs are on reserve. Choose one to listen to/view and
write a 2 page report on it, including artist, title, subject, your response,
and its relation to the African American expressive tradition and our class:
DVDs:
African American Music
ML3187.T66 2003 Too Close to Heaven: the history of gospel
music
ML3534.3L44 2003 Legends of
New Orleans: the music of Fats Domino
DVD ML3508.8.N4M35 2005 Make It Funky! (New Orleans
beats/funk music)
ML419.B25T74 2000 Count Basie at Carnegie Hall
ML419.75S3 2000 Satchmo: Louis
Armstrong
ML419.D39.M55 2002 The Miles
Davis Story
ML3506.J39 2000 Jazz (by Ken
Burns), discs 1-10
(choose one of the discs)
HV6457.S773 2002 Strange
Fruit (film on Billie Holiday, lynching, protest songs)
ML3534.H57 2004 The History of
Rock ‘n’ Roll Disc 1: Rock ‘n’ Roll Explodes: Good Rockin’ Tonight
ML3537.S68 1980 Soul to Soul (American soul artists visit West
Africa--incredible!)
ML3470.D52 1996 Going Back to
Memphis
ML3521.M37 2002 Martin
Scorsese Presents the Blues: a musical journey, discs 1-7 (complete set)
(choose one of the discs)
African American Authors
DVD JPS3552.A45Z87 1990
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
VHS PS3515.U274Z675 1992
Looking for Langston [Hughes]