Great content, wonderful professor, no music, no course materials
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“Use "Get all" because no new new classes are being posted for this 2006 course.
The Jazz + Culture course was very interesting and I learned a ton. It is obviously a labor of love by the Professor. I was sorry when it ended. It was fun sampling or buying music to which he referred. It's incredible that this great course is free.
The instructor Professor Andrew Barnes is a great guy and a jazz fan. (Thank you Prof. Barnes!) He shares stories from his own life, but not too many. He recorded this in December 2006 in a studio or office, not a classroom with students. He sometimes stutters and sometimes coughs into the mic (which would have been so easy to edit out!) , but the audio is very clear.
He sets the cultural and historical stage for each phase of jazz. He tells you what the musicians were trying to express. He has a lot of great stories about the musicians. It feels like you're hanging out with a guy who has a million great stories (with structure), not at all like a class.
He refers to assigned readings and to a listening list that are not included in the iTunes course, nor are they posted on the ASU website. He expected the students to subscribe to an online service that made a huge listening library available for a monthly fee. At first knowing that there is a list but we don't have it is frustrating. Eventually it draws you in because it means that you as a listener need to be more involved by remembering (if you're driving) or noting the pieces and CDs to which he refers. The books are by Shaprio/Nat Hentoff (probably Hear Me Talkin' to Ya: The Story of Jazz As Told by the Men Who Made It) and Robert Walser (probably Keeping Time: Readings in Jazz History). These are books of jazz readings. We don't have the list of assigned reading, but it would not be too difficult to approximate if you have the the books (I don't, but I hope to read them both).
The audio does not include any music at all, but he regularly refers to the pieces that he gave as assigned listening. It is possible to listen in iTunes to samples of the artists that he mentions, and that is helpful. It would be great to have the listening list for this class. Maybe some dedicated listeners who figure the lists out from listening (or an ASU student or Prof. Barnes) will post the listening and reading lists as reviews here. iTunes needs to manage these details of iTunes U a little better.
The "Get info" page for the lectures gives a date of 2009, but Prof. Barnes says in one lecture that he is recording it in December 2006. So it was probably first available as ASU History 306 in Spring, 2007.
Anyway, it's very entertaining and enlightening. The price is sure right compared to a Great Courses class.”
Billy52 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
03/08/11
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