If I had to create a new class, I would design a curriculum about music journalism.
This class is necessary because although we have journalism classes about how to write reviews, writing about music is often much more difficult for a beginning writer.
Describing audio with written language relies on a deep understanding of what makes that music appealing and a talent for condensing the essence of nebulous details into easy to understand prose.
Music journalism is more than writing reviews as well, including profile stories about artists, event stories about concerts and soft news stories about developments in the lives of music personalities.
Students in this class would learn how to effectively structure and write music reviews, from the beginning of taking initial notes based on the music to putting together an engaging lead that captures the critic's opinion in an engaging way.
This class would also teach students what kind of questions to ask musicians, based on what those artists would be interested in and what the audience would want to know.
I would call this class "Music journalism: Turning sounds into words."
The class would most likely be an elective that only students interested specifically in music journalism would take, but it would help those students hone their craft immensely.
This class is necessary because although we have journalism classes about how to write reviews, writing about music is often much more difficult for a beginning writer.
Describing audio with written language relies on a deep understanding of what makes that music appealing and a talent for condensing the essence of nebulous details into easy to understand prose.
Music journalism is more than writing reviews as well, including profile stories about artists, event stories about concerts and soft news stories about developments in the lives of music personalities.
Students in this class would learn how to effectively structure and write music reviews, from the beginning of taking initial notes based on the music to putting together an engaging lead that captures the critic's opinion in an engaging way.
This class would also teach students what kind of questions to ask musicians, based on what those artists would be interested in and what the audience would want to know.
I would call this class "Music journalism: Turning sounds into words."
The class would most likely be an elective that only students interested specifically in music journalism would take, but it would help those students hone their craft immensely.
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