Project Number 1

So, my adventures for the past few weeks have consisted of me sitting at my desk for hours apon hours, researching, writing, organizing and trying to compose a masterpiece! The first project was for my Popular Music in Society class with the fabulous Professor Nick Baxtor-Moore! The project consisted of choosing a topic (or your choice) about pretty much anything you want, but it had to do with popular music. It could be a genre of music, a time period, a social movement or a certain lyrical theme. I don't know what was wrong with me, but I chose the most bizarre topic in all the world and by the time I realized how crazy a topic it was, it was too late. I decided that I would look at a movement within South Africa called the Voelvry Movement. Basically a group of white Afrikaans speaking youth revolted against the apartheid government and created a whole wack of music. Sounds cool. Well, it is so obscure that it was next to impossible to fulfill the tasks of my assignment: a five page research paper outlining the subject, a 60 minute compilation CD illustrating the topic and full liner/listen notes to accompany the CD. The research was fine and I was able to come up with a five page essay (the yellow stack of paper), but the rest was hell. I first of all had the most horrible time trying to find the titles of songs that I should include on the CD; I then for the first time in my life illegally had to download the music; then I realized (duh!) that all the music was in Afrikaans! and then I had to find all the lyrics AND translations, never mind analytical material!!! It was insane and after staying up all night and finishing at 6:30 am, the day that it was due, I finished the project and handed it in! What an adventure!