Music related to Linguistics & Lx-Anthro?

[Carsten Otto]

Hi Richard,

now this is a very interestig topic!
Quite spontaneously the song Language of Violence 
performed by Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy comes to 
mind. It  explicitly - as the name suggests - deals with 
"violent" language. Actually, it's not uptempo...

Cheers from Germany,

Carsten.

On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 17:50:11 -0800
  Richard J Senghas <Richard.Senghas at SONOMA.EDU> wrote:
> Hey LingAnthers,
> 
> I am looking for music (popular, obscure, whatever) that 
>plays with linguistic (& especially anthropological) 
>topics.
> 
> I am now teaching a somewhat large (~70 students) 
>undergraduate, lower division Introduction to Linguistic 
>Anthropology course.  It hits us at that 
>just-before-and-going-into dinner hour, when students, 
>even those interested in the topics, begin to fade as 
>their blood sugar-levels drop, and the daylight begins to 
>fade (especially now).  When I taught my Intro to 
>Cultural Anthro course, I found that playing relevant, 
>especially upbeat, music just before class started helped 
>up the energy for the class session, and I would like to 
>use this trick again in this course.  I also found that 
>many of the students started to pick up on the 
>anthropological themes I planted in these selections.  By 
>the end of the semester, students started asking me for 
>my sources, often asking me if they had indeed figured 
>out the thematic connections.  (In a very real sense, 
>this became a not-grade-related extra credit 
>opportunity.)
> 
> I plan to start with some more obvious choices (e.g., 
>Laurie Anderson's "Language is a Virus" from her "Home of 
>the Brave" album), but I'm looking for other pieces for 
>later this semester.  Do you have any tracks you'd 
>recommend?  If the topic is obscure, I wouldn't mind 
>being given hints at the reason for your choices, though 
>we could make it a game for this list if you choose to 
>respond on-list.  And energetic music is preferred; we're 
>looking to juice them up!
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> -RJS
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