StARS Work

This week in class, not too much went on. I arrived to class at 9:30 on Tuesday, only to find out that class had been cancelled. Thursday consisted of reviewing and researching for the StARS project. The due date is much sooner than I had anticipated, being the 22nd of April, as opposed to early May like I had expected. I registered for StARS late, but luckily my application still went through, so fingers crossed! For the StARS project, we have to relate a topic back to the class, and create a poster to talk about with anyone who may be interested in learning about the topic. My topic is Musicians and Politics. Though thinking back, that’s almost the entire purpose of this course…

However, my presentation will focus on how musicians have impacted / attempted to impact politics, mainly political campaigns, both big and small. I think I’m going to only talk about American politics, to keep the presentation simple, and so I’m not jumping from nation to nation with each new musician I mention. Which eliminates bands like Pussy Riot, who were a very political, revolution-based band out of Russia. The good think about this topic is that there’s so many different musicians / groups who have gone political, and many of them were very popular. Some of the musicians I can choose to discuss include Bob Marley, Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, Willie Nelson, Neil Young, etc.

I’m excited to see what my peers choose to talk about, and I hope to see some of them during the same time slot as me in the StARS presentation.

Kevin Kulig