http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ A search of MERLOT materials Copyright 1997-2013 MERLOT. All rights reserved. Sat, 25 May 2013 08:24:32 PDT Sat, 25 May 2013 08:24:32 PDT http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/images/merlot.gif http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ 44 34 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=294932 This is the final lecture by Daniel Barenboim as part of the Reith Lectures at the BBC. Barenboim argues that music should be seen as a metaphor for life, capable of demonstrating the great qualities of leadership. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=89686 Presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, The Webby Awards is the preeminent honor for Web sites. It is an institution dedicated to testing the intersection of culture and technology and to finding the most influential people and the best works in emerging technologies. The annual Webby Awards feature 25 categories, Activism, Broadband, Commerce, Community, Education, Fashion, Film, Finance, Games, Government & Law, Health, Humor, Kids, Living, Music, News, Personal Web Sites, Politics, Print & Zines, Radio, Science, Services, Spirituality, Sports, TV, Travel, and Weird. The 2004 Webby Awards nominees exemplify the kinds of sites that Internet users should visit every day for information and entertainment. In addition, The Academy honors individuals for significant achievements and major contributions that have shaped the industry. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=294922 This is the first in a series of lectures by Daniel Barenboim, as part of the Reith Lecture Series at BBC. In the lecture he professes that, "Music can and from my individual point of view should become something that is used not only to escape from the world but rather to understand it. There is an audio of the lecture as well as a printed version. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=376164 This is a collection of more than 41,000 Spanish-language songs that go back to the early 1900s They were put online this week by the Chicano Studies Center, a research unit at the University of California at Los Angeles. The recordings are from the Arhoolie Foundation's Strachwitz Frontera Collection of Mexican and Mexican American Recordings. Due to copyright restrictions, only campus computers get full access. Off-campus users can hear 50 seconds of each song, see images of the record labels, and read background information about the recordings. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=294925 This is the second in a series of lectures by Daniel Barenboim as part of the Reith Lectures at BBC. As he states in the lecture, "The first quality that comes to my mind as to the intelligence of the ear is that the ear helps us tremendously to remember and to recollect, and the ear is therefore the basis for all the aspects that have to do with music-making, both for the performer and for the listener." http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=294930 This is the fourth in a series of lectures by Daniel Barenboim as part of the Reith Lectures at the BBC. Barenboim talks about how music is the great equaliser as he discovered in his West-Eastern Divan Orchestra which brings together young Arab and Israeli musicians. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=555588 This class introduces the craft of writing for the theater. Through weekly assignments, in class writing exercises, and work on a sustained piece, students explore scene structure, action, events, voice, and dialogue. We examine produced playscripts and discuss student work. This class's emphasis is on process, risk-taking, and finding one's own voice and vision. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=555728 This class serves as an introduction to video recording and editing, presenting video as a tool of personal apprehension and expression, with an emphasis on self-exploration, performance, social critique, and the organization of raw experience into aesthetic form (narrative, abstract, documentary, essay). Students are required to complete a variety of assignments to learn the basics of video capture and editing, culminating in a final assignment that has to do with personal storytelling. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=555989 This class provides an introduction to modern art and theories of modernism and postmodernism. It focuses on the way artists use the tension between fine art and mass culture to mobilize a critique of both. We will examine objects of visual art including painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, and video. These objects will be viewed in their interaction with advertising, caricature, comics, graffiti, television, fashion, folk art, and so-called "primitive" art. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=555922 Critical examination of major developments in European and American art during the past century. Surveys art's engagements with modernization, radical politics, utopianism, mass culture, changing conceptions of mind and human nature, new technologies, colonialism and postcolonialism, and other significant aspects of recent history.