Eco Walk: a Rap

While most people think that rap is just a lot of noise and sexual innuendos along with foul language, I would like to ask you to think about it as poety with a different rhyme scheme or with no ryhme scheme at all, just the beat of the music. 

As I went through this artistic experience with Claire we each were trying especially hard to come up with alternate lyrics to Thrift Shop. If I could not necessarily voice a line but knew what I wanted to say sometimes Claire would be able to voice it for me. I think this teamwork along with the help of one of Claire's roommates extends us to think ecologically. Instead of one person stealing the spotlight it was a conjoined effort which would have been nearly impossible if either one of us had tried to attempt it by ourselves.

It was also interesting that certain themes seemed to pop out of the lyrics, some completely by accident, others on purpose. I thought this was interesting because while Claire and I wanted to "teach" the class about something we had learned this semester, it seemed that we were creating an overview in one short rap. This rap provided flare and some "umphf" that added to the memory of what we learned in class, as did all the other teach-ins.

Each segment that we learned about throughout the year was brought together in one day and performed by all of us in different spiels. Each teach-in had its own unique flavor because it was tailored by each classmates in groups, pairs or in singles. Like Claire mentioned in her post, her and I had a similar concept to getting lost. While our opinions varied we were able to create a rap that represented ourselves as well as the class. And I think that each of these teach-ins reflected something that resonated within us during our ecological imaginings this year.