Thursday, August 29, 2013

Music on My Mind


Gordon Lightfoot, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"

One of my courses (four different ones this term -- two kinds of Intro and two kinds of Ethics!) is discussing aesthetic paradoxes as a sort of warm-up to the term; so to lead into the paradox of tragedy, I had them listen to this and write a paragraph on why anyone would like a song about people drowning in Lake Superior.