On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 10:46 AM, <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I'm always on the lookout for interesting ways into approaching teaching cities and citizenship in a world of global flows. This video and interview happens to come from a band I really like, Gogol Bordello, and the song and the video deal directly with the experience of being an immigrant. It's enjoyable and educational and a good thing to add to potential teaching material...
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> http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/16/gogol-bordello-immig.html
For the past few years, I've been doing an assignment in my 101 class
on the geography of music, in which I ask students to find a music
video on YouTube in a language other than their own first language*. A
couple of years ago, one of my French students presented this one,
from Manu Chao (called Clandestino):
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7kZsCgE5lQ>
Bruce
* <http://www.users.muohio.edu/darcusb/courses/101/assignments/music.html>
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