Experiments and final project

I believe you asked us last week to post what experiments we have left to do and what our final projects are. I have two experiments left to complete my new transcription of Muddy Waters song "Country Blues No.1" and I need to write a criticism of a published Ethnopoetic text.

My final paper is still what I talked to you about before. I am going to look at Son House's "Walking Blues," Robert Johnson's version of "Walking Blues," and then Muddy Water's revisioning of "Walking Blues" into "Country Blues No. 1." I will provide the Son House transcription that I have already posted as a blog, the Muddy Water's transcription that I am working on and a Robert Johnson transcription. I will then provide a 10 or so page commentary on the songs focusing on how can they all three be singing the same song but with different words? What does that say about language? I plan to include some of the Maria Sabina texts that we read, maybe some of Heideggar's thoughts on language, a brief discussion of African-American toasts, Ong's "Orality and Literacy," Fiumara's "The Other Side of Language," and finally Alan Lomax's "The Land Where the Blues Began."