Required Media (Listening + Video): Alice Coltrane, “Journey In Satchidananda”

Public Health

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Required Media (Listening + Video):

A 1-2 page short paper on a song or recording selected from our required listening. Like our Discussion Forums, this short paper is intended to engage with our required materials in a dialogic, analytical, and open-ended way. In this case, however, students are encouraged to explore a topic independently and with more focus.

Your writeup should include the following details:

1) Select a Song or Recording (1 paragraph / 5 pts)

  • Identify a specific recording selected from our required materials (you can talk about any of the required listening examples featured in Weeks 1-3 of this class).

    • 2) Culture of Color (1 paragraphs / 5 pts)

  • To which race, ethnicity, or cultural group of color does this recording apply? (Example: John Coltrane’s “Alabama” speaks to the experiences of African Americans during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.”)

    • 3) Analysis (2-3 paragraphs / 10 pts)

  • How does your chosen recording relate to issues of racial equity?
  • How does your chosen recording relate to the practice of social or political advocacy? If the recording you chose has ties to a specific historical event or revolutionary movement, please explain. *If it helps to explain your ideas, please provide analysis of the song’s lyrics, musical content, or music video.

    • 5) Citations (5 pts)

  • Include at least 2 inline citations to 2 different assigned readings drawn from Wks 1-3.
  • Citation format can be simplified/shorthand, and abbreviations are acceptable. (A works cited page is not required.)

    • Example 1 – if referencing a book, include the name of the author, title of the book or article, and page number:

    (Jones, “Jazz and the White Critic,” 11)

    Example 2 – if referencing an online article, include only the author and title of the article:

    (Rohter, “Borders and Epochs”)

    4) Comparison (1 paragraph / 2 pts / Extra Credit)

  • Find an example of a recording not included in our required listening examples and discuss the ways in which it relates to the recording chosen as the topic of your Reflection Paper.