Women in MusicOn November 4 and 5 we will be proud to welcome the 2009-2010 Tam Young Arts Chair, Nate Chinen, to our classroom. Nate Chinenhas 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.
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.