Record Club / Writing Rock

A good excuse for the music-obsessed to get together and share, discuss, and write about songs we love.  The record club format, based on the original in New York City, provides a welcome context for playing and discussing recent discoveries, old favorites, and obscure tunes.  Everyone brings two selections; during the first "round" each song gets played once while everyone listens without commenting.  After the chooser reveals the title and the artist, the song is played once more and everyone responds freely.  We'll take the format a step further by using additional sessions to write about the selections from vantages obvious (record reviews) to esoteric (the kind of historical-aesthetic criticism practiced by Greil Marcus, for example).  We'll read and discuss examples of rock writing to serve as prompts for our own pieces.  Working together as editors and writers, we'll develop and produce a "zine" of the week's writing, including a compilation CD.

Program Director: Marc Woodworth, Associate Editor of Salamagundi Magazine, Lecturer in English