Please do not make paragraph shorter than original paragraph Question: Develop a thesis pertaining to the assigned film text and whether or not it, the film, in your view has the power to transform one’s political sensibilities. Your argument should express your point of view regarding the politics of difference, political sensibilities, and political transformation(s) as related to the film. Remember, you’re writing (developing) an analytical essay. Submit your thesis statement in the box below: (red color sentence should be included) Answer: Gus Van Sant’s movie, My Own Private Idaho, has the power to transform a one’s political sensibilities through the process of finding Scott and Mike’s personal identity and using factor of sexuality. Question: 2. Develop three (3) topic sentences that articulate the major ideas that will comprise the body of your essay. Remember that your topic sentences should clearly state the argument or point to be made in the respective paragraphs. Submit your topic sentences in the box below: Answer: Through the character Mike, he keeps looking for his personal identity. Mike falls asleep without warning, anywhere and at any time. He has missed and starts to find his mother. On the road, he always says like he has been here before. Through these words, he understands his own value. And then repeated remembering past memory with mother also indicates that he looks for his identity. The character Scott has double-faced. Even though he is a son of mayor in reality, he is a prostitute for the reason that he wants to defy his father. It shows that he is lack of his identity because he has hanging out with Bob’s groups and then goes back to his real life. On the scene in the bar, Bob and his groupapproaches to Scott, but he just pretends not to know them. Question: 3. Identify three (3) scenes from the film that support your thesis statement. Briefly explain: Answer: On the beginning, middle and the end, the Mike stand and lie on the street and then he always said that “I always know where I am by the way the road looks like I just know that I’ve been here before. There’s not another road anywhere that looks like this road. It’s like someone’s face.” He does not know where to start and how to stop in his endless confusion. He suffers from hypnolepshy. In the scene 15:02, he tries to work prostitute with middle-age women, but he just fell asleep because of imaginary of his mother in the past. And then he looks for his mother with Scott to Portland, Idaho, and Roma. During this journey, Mike confesses his feelings to Scott. He feels love to Scott. In this part, this movie uses sexuality between them, which shows Mike’s identity confusion. On the scene 01:33, there is Bob’s funeral right by Scott’s father funeral. Scott pretends not to know Bob’s group. Scott has hanging out with them and then just goes back to his real life, which shows his mirror side identity. Question: 4. Lastly, fully develop your in.

1. Please do not make paragraph shorter than original paragraph
Question: Develop a thesis pertaining to the assigned film text
and whether or not it, the film, in your view has the power to
transform one’s political sensibilities. Your argument should
express your point of view regarding the politics of difference,
political sensibilities, and political transformation(s) as related
to the film. Remember, you’re writing (developing) an
analytical essay. Submit your thesis statement in the box below:
(red color sentence should be included)
Answer: Gus Van Sant’s movie, My Own Private Idaho, has the
power to transform a one’s political sensibilities through the
process of finding Scott and Mike’s personal identity and using
factor of sexuality.
Question: 2. Develop three (3) topic sentences that articulate
the major ideas that will comprise the body of your essay.
Remember that your topic sentences should clearly state the
argument or point to be made in the respective paragraphs.
Submit your topic sentences in the box below:
Answer: Through the character Mike, he keeps looking for his
personal identity. Mike falls asleep without warning, anywhere
and at any time. He has missed and starts to find his mother. On
the road, he always says like he has been here before. Through
these words, he understands his own value. And then repeated
remembering past memory with mother also indicates that he
looks for his identity. The character Scott has double-faced.
Even though he is a son of mayor in reality, he is a prostitute
for the reason that he wants to defy his father. It shows that he
is lack of his identity because he has hanging out with Bob’s
groups and then goes back to his real life. On the scene in the
bar, Bob and his groupapproaches to Scott, but he just pretends
not to know them.

2. Question: 3. Identify three (3) scenes from the film that support
your thesis statement. Briefly explain:
Answer: On the beginning, middle and the end, the Mike stand
and lie on the street and then he always said that “I always
know where I am by the way the road looks like I just know that
I’ve been here before. There’s not another road anywhere that
looks like this road. It’s like someone’s face.” He does not
know where to start and how to stop in his endless confusion.
He suffers from hypnolepshy. In the scene 15:02, he tries to
work prostitute with middle-age women, but he just fell asleep
because of imaginary of his mother in the past. And then he
looks for his mother with Scott to Portland, Idaho, and Roma.
During this journey, Mike confesses his feelings to Scott. He
feels love to Scott. In this part, this movie uses sexuality
between them, which shows Mike’s identity confusion. On the
scene 01:33, there is Bob’s funeral right by Scott’s father
funeral. Scott pretends not to know Bob’s group. Scott has
hanging out with them and then just goes back to his real life,
which shows his mirror side identity.
Question: 4. Lastly, fully develop your introductory paragraph.
Remember that the best possible thesis will answer some
specific question about the text. In this case a question related
to the film’s power to transform political sensibilities regarding
difference:
Answer: Gus Van Sant’s movie, My Own Private Idaho, has the
power to transform a one’s political sensibilities by using factor
of sexuality and Scott and Mike’s personal identity. In this
movie, the main character Mike has been confused by his past.

3. He imagines his mother and his youth suffering from
hypnolepshy. Through this process, he tries to form his own
sense of value. Scott also hangs out with Mike by the middle of
the movie. During this time, he also tries to create his own
identity. And then he just goes back to his real life as a son of
mayor. Between two characters, Mike feels love to Scott. This
part shows Mike’s sexuality.
.
Module 3
Country and Western Music
The Folk Origins of Country Music
Social, racial and religious elements that comprise country
music
• The labor conditions in the South and the ethnic diversity.
Isolation
• City vs. rural life. Contrast
• Differences in the urban development of North and South
• Infrastructure of nineteen-century southern society. “Blue
bloods”
Poor whites supremacy myths:
• The white’s natural supremacy to blacks.
• Machismo o macho (Latino term), a condition of male
strength and virility
Fundamentalist Christianity:

4. • Shaped and control all other attitudes in the South
• Second Awakening, or Great Revival
• Contradictory behavior or dual moralism
• “Gift of gab”
How Country Music
Reflects Rural Characteristics
• Topics in country music.
• Inner conflicts= Success
• Plain language vs. elegant poetics
• “White blues”
• South’s increasing urbanization of the 1920s.
The Tradition of British and American Balladry
Ballads:
Child ballads.
• Structure of the British ballads.
• Topics
• Key
Broadside.
• Songsters
• Topic
A distinctive trait of American Ballads

5. Ethnic Influences of the
Anglo-American Music Tradition
• Cultural interchange that distinguishes southern music.
• Blacks and Anglo-American ballads. Differences.
Instruments in the Early Country Music
Anglo-Celtic and Anglo-American
Fiddles
The Guitar
The Banjo
The Mandolin
Urban Influence on
Pre-commercial Country Music
• The process of change due to contact with the commercial
products of urban culture.
• Repertoire borrowed from sacred songs.
• City musical styles mixed with country
• Indicatives of the Anglo-American cultural dominance.
• Sense of conservatism. Isolationism.
• Christianity
Early Commercialization of
Country Music
Radio gave popular local entertainers a new medium for
reaching their

6. audience.
Atlanta:
WSB the first radio station in the south.
First country recording stars:
Fiddlin’ John Carson, Reverend Andy Jenkins, and Gid Tanner
Ralph Peer
Early recording expeditions to the South conducted by Ralph
Peer
The country and “race” music records: the record industry’s
efforts to appeal to various regional and ethnic groups.
“Fiddlin’” John Carson: The first commercial country recording
artist. “Little Old Log Cabin in the Line” sold over 500,000
copies
Hillbilly: A term used for people who dwell in rural
Hillbilly music: A label for what is now known as country
music.
Rube costumes: Dress in straw hats and ragged clothes
Producer, engineer, and talent scout
Listening of “Little Old Log Cabin in the Line”

7. Lyric: A typical minstrel fare:
Sung by a blackface character, it is nostalgic and sentimental,
in a formal, church-delivered manner and does not act out the
lyric or display emotion in his rendering
He plays the melody in his fiddle as he sings.
He use the melody of the verse as an instrumental introduction,
as an interlude between verses and as ending
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddlin'_John_Carson
Listening:
“Soldier’s Joy”
The two-part form alternates with a vocal based only on the
melody
of the verse
Lyric is rural South: Were often nonsense or based on the must
mundane
of subject manners
Tin Pan Alley
and the Country Music
Vernon Dalhart (1883-1948)
Event Songs: Broadsidelike ballads for new events (usually
monumental tragedies)
Prison Songs: Most often a lament by someone wrongly sent to
prison

8. “Wreck of the old 97”
“ The Prisioner’s Song”
Carson Robison ( 1890- 1957):
Successful writer of event songs.
Had a professional relationship with Vernon Dalhart, mainly as
a song writer but also as a musician. Between the 1930s and
1940s he madesome of the earliest tours of a country musician
in a British Isles.
Bob Miller ( 1890- 1957):
Wrote over seven thousands songs for his publishing
company in New York
Ralph Peer and The Bristol Sessions
Bristol, Tennesse.
The Carter Family from Virginia: a conservative southeastern
strain
Jimmie Rodgers from Mississippi: an eclectic southwestern
strain.
The Solemn Old Judge and the
Barn Dance
The two most successful radio shows:
National Barn Dance (NBD) in Chicago
WSM’s Grand Ole Opry in Nashville

9. Conducted by Gorge D. Hay, an announcer from Indiana
The Carter Family
• “God, Mom, and Home” theme exemplified the
conservative old-time approach of the southeast.
• Decca Label and XERF radio station
• Maybelle Carter’s guitar style
• Influence and importance in country music history of The
Carter Family
Analysis of “Wildwood Flower”
Lyric: Archaic style, came from a nineteenth-century
parlor song called “ The Pale Amaranthus.”
Maybelle Carter’s guitar playing is the most celebrated feature
of this recording:
The melody is played in the lower strings and strums
the accompanying chords and rhythm on the upper strings
with a downstroke
Jimmie Rodgers
•“The father of country music”
• Styles that influenced Jimmie Rodgers
• Blues yodels songs
• Vocal style was characterized by a throaty, reedy quality
• Rodgers’ variety of musical settings

10. Analysis of “Waitin’ for a Train”
Features: Bowed string bass, Hawaiian slide guitar, guitar,
muted trumpet, and clarinet, playing in a relaxing, jazzy,
Dixieland style
Lyrics: is about being a hobo, wandering along the railroad line.
Vocal style: relaxed and wistful, lazily sliding from one pitch to
the next and frequently employing blue notes.
Activity:
From the BBC documentary Story of Country Music 01 Carter
Family
Make a resume addressing the following points:
1. Characteristics of the lyrics and musical elements that
compounded the songs such as tempo, topic in the lyric, and
religious statements.
2. Describe the Maybelle Carter’s guitar style as was
explained in the documentary.
3. How the invention of the Western Electric Company
changed the promotion and development of the commercial
music?
4. What happened when the first record from the Carter
Family was released?
5. What were the primary resources from where A. P obtained
the melodies for his compositions?
6. What personal event in the Carter Family describes the
religious contradictory behavior and dual moralism?
7. Who became the first solo star in Country Music?

11. Country Meets Western
Singing Cowboys: Gene Autry brought a sophisticated crooning
sound
to country vocal style.
Cowboy harmony: Sons of the Pioneers
Decca Records and Radio X
Music demonstrate a diversity and eclecticism.
Western swing: Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys “New San
Antonio Rose”
Honky tonk: named for the establishments in which the music
was heard.
Nashville Sound
1. What was the key to the Nashville Sound?
2. What does Eddy Arnold represent for the Country music?
3. Explain the importance of the crossover for the survival of
the Country Music.
4. According with his own words what was the motivation
that moved Eddy Arnold to become in one of the most
representative artist of the Nashville Sound.
Hank Williams
The Bakersfield Sound
From California, characterized by rockabilly-influenced electric
sounds.
Buck Owens
Austin and Outlaw Country
Eclectic mix music, characterized by blend of 1960s rock,
urban, folk, and country, ranging from the Carter Family and
blues to Bob Dylan and psychedelic rock
Willie Nelson

12. Activity:
From the BBC documentary:
The Story of the Country Music 09
Buck Owens and Willie Nelson
Make a resume addressing the following points:
1. How Nashville’s rules became a creatively stalled place
for songwriters?
2. Why Willie Nelson chose Austin, Texas to develop his
career?
3. Statement why Nashville between the 1960s and 1970s was
considered in the movie “a real feudal system”
4. What the Willie Nelson music did to the diversity of the
audience at the time he was contracted to play at the Armadillo
World Headquarter?
5. What is the importance of Red Head Stranger in Willie
Nelson’s career and its transcendence for the country music?
6. Besides Austin what was the other city to challenge
Nashville?
7. According with Buck Owens interview, what are the reason
that he preferred to play the Bakersfield style than Nashville?
Bluegrass
More eclectic, both in its repertoire and its manner of
performance.
It is this emphasis on virtuoso instrumental display.
Different use of rhythm: Constant patter of sixteen notes -
“chugga-lugga”

13. Because its complexity, it is compared with jazz
Instrumentation: Banjo, Mandolin, Guitar, Fiddle, and Bass
Bill Monroe and
the Blue Grass Boys
Flatt and Scruggs
Popularized the Dobro
Activity:
From the BBC documentary The Story of Country Music 03
Bill Monroe
Make a resume addressing the following points:
1. Describe the characteristics in the personality of Bill
Monroe which allowed him to develop a solid conceptual
structure in his music.
3. The Blue Grass Boys are named after ______________
4. What happened in 1945 that the bluegrass sound began to
be defined?
5. What was the contribution of Earl Scruggs to the banjo
technique?
6. What cause that many musicians didn’t stay for long in the
Monroe’s band ?
7. What was bluegrass’s relationship with the urban folk
revival in the late 1950s and early 1960s?
Johnny Cash

14. Activity:
From the BBC documentary The Story of Country Music 04
Make a resume addressing the following points:
What do the live albums recorded at Folsom prison in 1968
and in San Quentin State prison in 1969 symbolize for Johnny
Cash?
What was the transcendence of the Vietnam War and the
1960s hippie movement in the music of Merle Haggar?