Music of Silk Roads Class
I'm excited to finally get to teach my silk roads class this winter, even if it is to a max of 80 lower div. undergrads, rather than the senior seminar that I originally conceived it as.
Constructing the reader has turned out to be a huge pain, since 2 of the books I own and want to use for it (old travelers' tales) have disappeared in one of my many recent moves and it's thrown me into a bit of a tail spin.
However, the class itself should really rock - I've just booked 2 guest lectures, both of which will do live music demos (of qanun and setar) at my dutaring to all that, and it should be a pretty engaging 10 weeks. I hope. Hell, at this point I just hope some folks register for it.
Constructing the reader has turned out to be a huge pain, since 2 of the books I own and want to use for it (old travelers' tales) have disappeared in one of my many recent moves and it's thrown me into a bit of a tail spin.
However, the class itself should really rock - I've just booked 2 guest lectures, both of which will do live music demos (of qanun and setar) at my dutaring to all that, and it should be a pretty engaging 10 weeks. I hope. Hell, at this point I just hope some folks register for it.