Team A reading questions. Responses of 250-300 words are due by 9PM on Wednesday 9/10 as an original post. Don’t forget a creative title for your post. 1. Judge this book by its cover. What decisions have the book designers made here? What do they…
Team C reading questions. Responses of 250-300 words are due by 9PM on Monday 9/8 as an original post. Don’t forget a creative title for your post. 1. Consider the review that Wilson writes for chapter 11. Why does it appear as a review, rather…
As I was reading “Let’s Talk About Love” Wilson brought up a point that I found very interesting. He made a connection between social habits and the ever going struggle to “be cool”. Whether we know it or not, we form habits that make us…
In “Let’s Talk About Love” Wilson gives reasons for his tastes and distastes, followed by different reasons to support both. In chapters six to eight, the concept of taste is examined through the ideas of Hume, Kant, and Bourdieu. Does Wilson seem to favour one…
The typical one direction fan is extraordinarily conspicuous, making no qualms about her love for the band by wearing 1D rings and tops while posting concert pictures on her instagram. She (at most one direction concerts, only about 2% of the entire audience is male)…
1. How are Hume, Kant, and Bourdieu different in their thinking about taste? (You might choose to focus on two rather than all three.) Whom do you tend to agree with more, and why? What examples might help support your preference? When comparing all three…
David Hume describes what he sees as a tasteful person in terms of, “strong sense, united to delicate sentiment, improved by practice, perfected by comparison and cleared of all prejudice.” (Wilson 80) Hume correlates his ideas with a class that is so elite those specific…
The video for “My Heart Will Go On” tells the story of the romantic relationship between Jack and Rose, two young adults from very different backgrounds, in Titanic. The video’s very emotionally charged lyrics correspond with the intense nature of Jack and Rose’s short relationship aboard the…
In the reading, Wilson explicitly states the purpose of the book: to examine musical tastes based on social and geographical culture and whether or not they hold any water. His goal is to search for the redeeming qualities in so-called “bad art”, by first examining…
The video for “My Heart Will Go On” by Celine Dion is basically a summary of the short relationship between Jack and Rose and of the movie Titanic. It portrays the song as sad, yet hopeful in that Jack and Rose were once together,…