L3 popular culture - resources on popular music

Here is an article on British popular music in the 1970s. It is entitled

"What Has Popular Music Ever Done for Us? Pleasure, Identity and Role Play in UK Pop Music in the 1970s" and tries to examine some questions which are not easy.  If we look at the history, we know that punk arrived in the 1970s, rap arrived in Britain 15 years or so later. But is it possible to say why?

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


And this very important documentary traces the history of the genre "progressive rock" in Britain. This is an important genre because it tended to challenge the distinction between popular culture and high culture. (About 15% of the documentary is not visible on Youtube, but you can see enough to follow the main points).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eHXus7ZszI&list=PLA911C12EC45DCF4A

Finally, a note about the links I put on this blog. Over the semester I have put about fifteen links to articles and videos. these will be useful for you to find examples to illustrate your answers in the exam. To repeat what I said about tests and exams - both the classroom test in December, and the January exam (if it turns out to be about British civilisation) will ask very general questions,  so that you have quite a bit of freedom as to how to illustrate and justify your answer. Of course, if you have more and better examples than everyone else, you will get a good mark.

L3 Popular culture - first class on 20th century British popular music

You will find here the MP3 recording of the first class on 20th century popular music genres.

The slides will be available on this blog later, when I have got through more of them in class.

There will be more popular music reading and links later today on this blog.

The past in the present

Every single day there seems to be an example in the https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/nov/27/bronze-cockerel-to-be-returned-to-nigeria-by-cambridge-college

réunion d'information

Pour les étudiants de L3,  Master, agrégation:

Partir à l'étranger pour travailler en tant que lecteur:

Réunion d'information

Mercredi 4 décembre 2019 à 12h30 en salle A316

Contact: cecile.fouache@univ-rouen.fr

Important

1) Attention. A l’approche de l’hiver il y a de très méchantes gastros qui se promènent.
2) A cause de 1) je serai absent demain et mercredi.
3) Pour qu’on continue à avancer, Je mettrai sur ce blog de la lecture etc concernant chacun des cours.
4) Faites passer l’information.

A little more contemporary UK art

In this article from a few years back

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2009/jun/23/classified-tate-britain-contemporary-art

Le passé dans le présent... et la campagne éléctorale actuelle

"The past in the present" is not an abstract concern: it is entering into the present electoral campaign. How will Indians living in Britain vote? Might they be influenced by the attitude of party leaders to past massacres ? This article is from an Indian newspaper:

https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/will-apologise-for-jallianwala-bagh-massacre-if-voted-to-power-labour-party-s-manifesto/story-5YOTcNR1oxJeBBnRdfCpuI.html?fbclid=IwAR0tzEj25wwcMVC9Ocf9G3Bqp14uQh-8jd257D33VOHvPwixquawNwzwLPU

And this is the 1919 event they are referring to 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jallianwala_Bagh_massacre

Devoir maison deadline MEEF M1

I know you are busy people, but I will have to be inflexible with the 15th December deadline for the homework assignment.

This is because I want to go over the dossier and discuss suggestions about it in the class on the 18th  December. Obviously I can't accept homework assignements after that!

L3 Popular Culture: Reggae Britannia

In class I have concentrated on genre values and constraints. Here is a very good documentary staking out the history of one particular musical  genre : Reggae in the UK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQXyK1uxTps&t=2s

Document préparation m e e f

Some of you have not got the document (DM). It is here.

MEEF m1

I thought I would start this afternoon's  class with some information about the upcoming election. So do prepare questions.

Captain Cook agrégation anglais 2020 option civilisation post 31 Timewatch: Cook the Man

Quite a number of the videos  and articles I have been recommending deal with quite specific aspects of Cook, his history and the commemorations. This is a much more general one, a summary of Cook's voyage from a fairly traditional point if view, but very well put together:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5ApP0jr5Wg&t=7s

The video opens up a whole series of historical and historiographical questions, but also is a clear summary of part of Cook' s life.

Thème agrégation: This week's translation

We'll just end at the word "palais".

More news about Banksy

This week, news about one of Banksy's works is again provoking reflectiion about what art does, and what the art market is for. See here:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/nov/17/row-over-sale-banksys-sculpture-drinker-sothebys

La Revue française de civilisation britannique

The main journal for British Studies in France (although there are others which are almost as good) can be found here 


https://journals.openedition.org/rfcb/216

L3 popular culture- visual art

You will find here the MP3 recording of the second class on visual art in Britain since 1945.

All the visual art slides  are here.

M1 seminar week 2 of writing the history of the First World War

You will find here a recording in MP3 of the second class.

The slides  will come later, when I have got to the end of the PowerPoint.

Here you will find an article about the role and activities of the Church of England during the First World War.

M1 MEEF scheduling

Remember there will be a class on Wednesday 18th December. This will be at the same time as you rusual weekly class, but not in the same room. It will be in A400.

L3 popular culture - scheduling

Remember there will be a class on Tuesday  17th December. This will be at the same time as your class is every week, but in a different room : it will be in A400.

MEEF Utopies etc

Voici des videos. Documentaires, conférences etc.


Luddism

Chartism

Chartism again