Women+in+Music

 **Women in Music** On November 4 and 5 we will be proud to welcome the 2009-2010 Tam Young Arts Chair, Nate Chinen, to our classroom.
 * //[[image:6a011570bcfeed970b0115714d0ef9970c-150wi.jpg align="left" link="http://thegig.typepad.com/about.html"]] Nate Chinen //** //has been has been writing about jazz and pop for the// New York Times //since 2005. He has received multiple honors from the Jazz Journalists Association, including an award for Best Book About Jazz, for// Myself Among Others: A Life in Music //(2003), which he wrote with the impresario George Wein. Since 2004 he has been a columnist for// JazzTimes. //He is a 1994 graduate of Iolani School.//

Check [|here] for a link to his blog, //The Gig//. Extra Credit if you write a blog entry commenting on one of his entries.

Here's what Mr. Chinen would like you to do before his visit:  Watch the following videos.  Post your thoughts using the discussion tags above. Read a classmate's thoughts and comment on that as well.

1. "Miss Independent" (Ne-Yo)

2. "Run This Town" (Jay-Z w/ Rihanna and Kanye) 

These are audio-only: 

1. [|Russian Roulette] (Rhianna)  2. "Crawl" (Chris Brown)  and in connection with that,[| this article.]  And then  [|Miranda Lambert.] 

