Annotation #9

http://courses.dce.harvard.edu/~musie139/2009/. A History of Blues in America. Charles Sawyer. Web. 25 Oct. 2009.


Charles Sawyer, the other of The Arrival of B.B. King and blues musician, uses a creative way to tell the history of blues at Harvard University. His class videos basically explain his meeting of B.B. King to his students and other Blues musicians that made a big influence on blues. He has thought his students also about the instruments they used. He briefly explains the where they played and when. He also talks about the person himself and their death (if they died). He methodically puts that person in the time he was big among the country. Usually he talks of the same person in two courses if that person is fairly famous. Sawyer's creative teaching allow the student to get a better understanding of those famous people. This relates to my reaserch by giving facts about famous blues artists that influenced blues.