L3 Popular Culture Folk music

 

The history of folk music in Britain

was the subject of a documentary series on the BBC. You can find the first episode here, and the other are easy to find on YouTube :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JAzWTjNTuU

 

Here are a few classic English folk songs

Sandy Denny 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsqztvHIB9Y

 

Fairport Convention

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1it7BP5PckI

Mr Fox

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGXR0NzN3Hw

 

The Chieftains (Irish)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aC74R_nrHz0

 

And here is an article I wrote about popular music during the two world wars.

https://hal-normandie-univ.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02427029/document

 

PS You will see feedback on this blog soon, concerning your classroom test  

Devoir maison M1 MASTER MEEF civilisation britannique pour 10 décembre

 Comme vous le savez, l'évaluation du semestre se fait par devoir maison. L'exercice se trouve ici

http://www.jcmullen.fr/1121DMEEF.pdf

Faites passer le message. Je suis convaincu que PRESQUE tous les étudiant e s consultent régulièrement ce blog, mais il pourrait y avoir un e ou deux qui ne le font pas.

La fête de Neuilly

 

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%AAte_%C3%A0_Neu-Neu 

BBC and classical music

 The history of the BBC Symphony Orchestra is interesting:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Symphony_Orchestra 

Agrégation BBC: Students at Rouen

 In class I did not get to the end of the timeline. There are now videos of mine online which take you up to 1995:

After 1980  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqMdu17EfJ0

The BBC under Thatcher https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky_UIk8EtRQ

Previous decades we covered in class IRL. However, I have put online, on my YouTube channel, the videos I made last year during lockdown. You may find these useful for revising. Also note that they are broadly the same classes, but not identical at all : I present a certain number of questions differently. I will leave you to find the videos on my YouTube channel, which is here :

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvLLgJ4sKK4397db6PiYuRQ 

Each video is around 30 minutes. You will find

Seven videos covering the BBC since the Second World War

Three videos covering the BBC before the Second World War

Three videos on the Commissions of Enquiry

Two videos on the Director-Generals

Three videos making up a general introduction

And one dense video in French

There is a certain amateurism in the channel: in particular don't take any notice of the first few seconds of the videos, in which I give the chapters numbers according to a rather bizarre numbering system.

There will be a couple more videos on other BBC subjects over the next few weeks.

First World War historiography seminar

 The aim of the seminar is to look at what historians do and why. In the case of university historians, the products we are expected to produce include

 - books (300 to 500 pages). These take a long time so we do not do many.

- articles  or chapters (4000 to 6000 words) Here is an example about humour in First World War song 

https://hal-normandie-univ.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02488298/document 

 - papers (that is to say, speeches) at university conferences. These generally last twenty minutes, and should be quite concentrated. Hre is an example I gave in Greece

https://www.blod.gr/lectures/the-many-and-varied-uses-of-wartime-popular-song/

M1 MEEF More revision of aspects of British history

 

As you know, the programme for the CAPES exam changes regularly. For 2022 it is as follows :

Thème des programmes de collège

- Rencontres avec d’autres cultures

Axes d’étude des programmes de lycée

- Art et contestation
- Diversité et inclusion
- Fiction et réalité
- Relation entre l’individu et le groupe

 

We will be working a lot on diversity and inclusion in November and December. For the topic « Art et contestation », the work many of you did with me in L3 on high culture and popular culture, both in the visual arts and in music will be helpful for you : I hope you have not thrown your notes away. Those of you who did not have this class with me in L3 will find useful material by searching on this blog, or on my Youtube channel

https://www.youtube.com/c/JohnMullenTheHistoryFellow

 

Last year, one of the themes was « le passé dans le présent ». This theme is no longer on the programme. However, I do recommend that you watch the videos I made last year during lockdown, because they deal with many aspects of British history, including diversity and inclusion, and the relation between the individual and the group. There are six half-hour videos, and you will find them here :

1  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RkxtVGKdtE

2  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv_zAJqSLK0

3  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00rVfOC8w2w

4  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wq-MSR6CsSo

5  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9sGnbE2MGE

6  https://studio.youtube.com/video/DaPcFDppmHo/edit

 

M1 MEEF CAPES exercise from last year. Read carefully.

 As you know, this semester you will soon receive a homework exercise in the form of documents to comment upon.  This is close to the exercise you will have in the CAPES. We have time to work up to the exam: forthe moment you should be reading the UK and US press once a week, and a good history book. If you don't know anything about history and politics, you will obviously not get a decent mark.

 

To prepare for this semester's homework assignment, I would like you to look very carefully indeed at the assignment I gave the MEEF people last year, and the comments I made about their mistakes and difficulties. You will find all this  here:

 

https://johncmullen.blogspot.com/2021/01/m1-meef-comments-on-homework.html

M1 MEEF diversité

 Un des grands thèmes du programme du CAPES est la diversité (multiculturalisme etc). Cet article sur le festival de Notting Hill examine un aspect de  cette question.

ici 

https://hal-normandie-univ.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01761271/document

Banksy and Dismaland

 One of the most ambitious and intriguing of Banksy's projects, Dismaland.

See this short video in French.

What is Banksy trying todo? Is he successful?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJ2hqCrTp1o

Les salles de la semaine à Rouen 26 - 28 octobre

 mardi

L3 civi GB 10h30 A107

L3 civi GB 15h30 L101

mercredi

Thème Agreg/M2 L102 10h30

Séminaire Master historiographie Première guerre A511 15h

jeudi MEEF M1 civi GB Amphi 2 9h30

Everyday multiculturalism in Britain

 At the National gallery, they suggest a visit in connection with the hindu festival, Diwali.

https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/celebrate-diwali-at-the-national-gallery-23-10-2021

Agrégation BBC - Rouen students

 In last week's class, which I could not come to because I was ill; I was intending to 1) finish the timeline  and 2) Talk about television theory . There will be videos doing each of these things over the next few weeks.

If you wish to practice your dissertation skill, you can write me a dissertation on "The BBC and Modernity" and I will comment on your work.

We have classes in early 2022 on dissertation (2 x 1 hour) and on commentary (3 x 2 hours).

If you have questions, send me an email. And don't forget to search this blog for "BBC" if you want more links to videos, articles etc.

M1 MEEF Overview of British history since the Romans: all the podcasts and slides. Six hours of podcasts and two hours of video

 

These classes were mostly put together to provide an overview/revision of British history for M1 enseignement. Other students, for the agrégation, for example, may find them useful for revision purposes.

We looked briefly at the main highlights of British history since the Romans. Here you have all the recordings and slides in the same place.

There were four weeks of classes. Here are the slides which cover the whole of the four week course.

http://www.jcmullen.fr/1021meefoverviewfull.pdf

 

Week one

Podcast one looks at the history of Roman Britain

http://www.jcmullen.fr/0921meef1romans1a.mp3

Podcast two looks at the Anglo Saxon invasion and the period up to 1066.

http://www.jcmullen.fr/0921meefromans1b.mp3

 

Week two

This podcast on the Middle Ages in Britain, the Norman invasion and all that 

http://www.jcmullen.fr/meef2amiddleages.mp3

This one on the Reformation in Britain

http://www.jcmullen.fr/meef2breformation.mp3

 

Week three

The civil war and Cromwell’s Commonwealth

http://www.jcmullen.fr/1021meef3a.mp3

The industrial revolution

http://www.jcmullen.fr/1021meef3b.mp3

 

Week four

This podcast is on empire

http://www.jcmullen.fr/1021MEEF4A.mp3

This podcast is on the first half of the first half of the 20^th century

http://www.jcmullen.fr/1021MEEF4B.mp3

 

I recommended for the period since 1945, these videos which I made last year during lockdown:

Britain since 1945 part one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTCSXG2idxo

Britain since 1945 part two

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxuFAd64vY0

Britain since 1945 part three

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpva_YfbmwM

Britain since 1945 part four

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEJhMiBDWbE

BBC : Amiens and Villetaneuse

 If you are working with me on the BBC, but are not from the University of Rouen, I just sent you an email today. The email lists are not perfect, so if you did not receive this mail, please contact me and I will send it to you. john.mullen  AT  univ-rouen.fr 

First World War Popular Song in Britain and France

 If you are interested in what your lecturers do when they are not teaching you here is a twenty minute research paper I just gave at an international online conference.

"Reinforcing War Priorities in Britain and France 1914-1918: Why Were the French and British Repertoires So Radically Different?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqBGRAze2O4&t=5s

M2 Thème

 

M2 LES Cours de thème à partir du 27.10

Posted on October 20, 2021 

For the second half of the first semester, M2 students will be joining in the translation classes which are also for those preparing the agrégation. You will find the booklet of passages we are translating here:  http://www.jcmullen.fr/0921themebooklet.pdf

On the 27th we will be on passage number seven, by Masse. Please prepare a translation before the class, and bring both the passage and the translation with you. Each week, if you send me your translation by email john.mullen@univ-rouen.fr by the Friday *before* we study that particular passage in class, I will send you by email individualized commentary. Please do not give me anything on paper.

After the class, each week, I post on my teaching blog http://johncmullen.blogspot.com/ a suggested translation with plenty of notes concerning the particular difficulties involved. This translation remains on my blog for two or three weeks only .

If you are thinking of taking the agrégation after your Master’s degree, do not worry – every year the passages are different, on a three year rotation.

L3 British studies: Popular culture and high culture since 1945

 Since I was absent on Tuesday, and time is precious, you will find here video classes which I made last year during the lockdown. These two half-hour videos are essential, and you must watch them before the classroom test in early November. There are also here two other short videos.

 Essential :

A presentation of some key British visual artists

From Henry Moore to Tracy Emin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh4FbURIIQs

From  Damian Hirst to Anthony Gormley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F94xDP203X0

 

Supplementary :

A short film about Barbara Hepworth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmewT4pJf_c

A short film about Tracy Emin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZBkxqNJC9g

And if you want to read a long defence of modern art by a well-known Marxist writer, you will find one here 

https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/writers/molyneux/1998/xx/legitimacy.htm

Absence maladie

 Je suis souffrant et je serai absent de l’université aujourd’hui mardi et demain mercredi.

Il y aura, pour chaque groupe d’étudiants des informations importantes ici, avant demain soir.

JM

Séminaire sur l'histoire de la BBC: Sciences Po Paris

 Vous trouverez ici l'enregistrement de ce séminaire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGBfKUSO3NU

Agrégation BBC 1922-1995, Podcasts et PowerPoints

 My students in Rouen have now had five (quite long) classes on the BBC. I have posted elsewhere on this blog the MP3 recordings and other elements, but here, all in one place, you can find the five weeks of podcasts and the five weeks of PowerPoints.

Week one

Podcasts

1a  General Introduction

1b What questions need to be asked about the history of the BBC

 

Slides 1a

Slides 1b

 

Week two

You will find here a recording of a BBC class in which I deal with the  BBC and cultural history, and the BBC and the history of representations, before going on to speak of the commissions of enquiry which punctuated the life of the organization from 1922 to 1995.

Podcast week two

The slides here cover both the Commissions of enquiry and the Director generals

[All my BBC students need to watch these videos which I made on the BBC director generals:

Director generals 1922-1960

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_BldNT0NFk

Director generals 1960-1995

https://youtu.be/fiBPHXYLKKQ   ]

 

week three

 In the third week I looked at the BBC from 1922 to 1945

Here is the recording (almost two and a half hours).

And here are the slides which accompanied the talk

 

Week four

 In week four I looked at 1945 to somewhere around the middle of the 1960s.

You will find the recording here (two and a half hours long) 

And here are the slides for week four and five

 

Week five

Here is the recording.

The slides are above

L3 DST Popular culture and high culture

 As you know your L3 class has a marking scheme made up of three elements:

- a classroom test in November

- an exam in January

- an oral in May or June.

The classroom test, for both of my L3 groups, will be on Tuesday  the 9th of November

..

History of Britain since 1945: videos

(For this year's MEEF students). In class I have given you an overview of British history up to 1945. You will find on my Youtube channel(The History fellow) a series of four half hour videos I made about Britain since 1945, to bring you up to date. The first one is here

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTCSXG2idxo 

(For this year's L3 students) If you missed a class, or you need to revise, these four videos (which I made last year in lockdown) will help you - they present the historical background of Britain since 1945. The first one is here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTCSXG2idxo

Agrégation BBC week four Rouen podcast history of the BBC 1945- 1963

 In week four I looked at 1945 to somewhere around the middle of the 1960s.

You will find the recording here (two and a half hours long) 

Agrégation BBC week three Rouen podcast history of the BBC part three

 In the third week I looked at the BBC from 1922 to 1945

Here is the recording (almost two and a half hours).

And here are the slides which accompanied the talk

thème - warning

 We do most things online these days - encyclopedias etc. When working on translations, one can often find  help with difficulties of vocabulary online - many online dictionaries are quite good these days, especially if they are accompanied by plenty of examples of the use of a word (eg  https://www.linguee.fr/ )

This is not the case for online grammar, as I was reminded when I was correcting your latest work. I was looking for online explanations of the uses of "have someone do/ make someone do/ get someone to do/ have sthg done/ get sthg done". If you Google this kind of question, most of the answers given by different websites, forums etc are completely incorrect. This may be because amateurs think they understand grammar and do not (whereas amateurs may be quite good at giving examples of vocabulary use). I certainly know from experience that if you ask French people who are not linguistics experts to explain uses of the subjunctive, they will give you hopelessly inaccurate explanations. 

So, for grammar explanations, do not look online. The only exception is where I give here on the blog a link. This means I will have checked the site and the explanations will be good. Stick very closely to your Grammaire explicative de l'Anglais...

Rooms for Tuesday and Wednesday

 All Tuesday and Wednesday rooms the same as last week.

Thème: clearer instructions

 So, if you can send me Daenincks, send it before Friday, otherwise send me Vasquez before the 15th.

L3 popular culture since 1945 … what has pop music ever done for us?

 This article I wrote about the usefulness of popular music

https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01966875/document 

Thème

 I did request that your translations be sent to me by each Wednesday, one week before we look at them in class. I will sometimes accept them on Thursday and Friday, but, finally, I would like you not to send them after Friday midnight.

Agrégation. BBC Director Generals from the 1960s on.

 All my BBC students need to watch this video which I made:

https://youtu.be/fiBPHXYLKKQ 

Salles pour mercredi et jeudi 6 et 7

 Pas de cours mardi; les salles pour mercredi et jeudi sont les mêmes que la semaine dernière.

Le cinéma social britannique

 En streaming gratuit sur France TV ce mois ci dix des films de Ken Loach à ne pas rater!

Mardi 5 octobre

Pour demander de meilleures conditions de travail, le remplacement des collègues partis à la retraite etc. , les syndicats de l’enseignement supérieur appellent à la grève mardi 5 octobre ( voir appel ici https://www.snesup.fr/sites/default/files/fichier/appel_intersyndical_esr.pdf )

Je serai absent mardi, et les cours sont annulés ce jour là.