Music related to Linguistics & Lx-Anthro?

[Robin Queen]

I've used these in various classes and they work well

Chingy: Right Thurr 
Tim McGraw: Back When
Steve Moss: Osama Yo Mama
Alanis Morrisette: I'm a Bitch
Cheryl Wheeler:  Potato Song (great for talking about prosody and stress)
Morrisey: Piccadilly Palare (has nice examples of Polari)


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> On Feb 2, 2010, at 5:50 PM, Richard J Senghas wrote:
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>> Hey LingAnthers,
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>> I am looking for music (popular, obscure, whatever) that plays with linguistic (& especially anthropological) topics.
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>> 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.)
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>> 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!
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>> Best regards,
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>> -RJS
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>> Richard J. Senghas, Professor            | Sonoma State University
>> Department of Anthropology               | 1801 East Cotati Avenue
>> Human Development Program                | Rohnert Park, CA 94928-3609
>> Richard.Senghas[at]sonoma.edu            | 707-664-3920 (fax)
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