After class, Fournier, who will be publishing a book on the Minutemen’s Double Nickels on the Dime as part of Continuum’s 33 1/3 series in the spring, and who also maintains a blog (alphabetical.blogspot.com) on which he’s reviewed his entire record collection in alphabetical order, says he’d had the idea for this class “for years and years and years.” The problem? “It was prohibitive because there was no way to get the music to the kids except for me burning CDs in my room for hours and hours.”
Podcasting changed all that. And although he’s embraced it wholeheartedly, he says there’s “still a little resistance” on the part of his students. He estimates that about 60 percent of his class would still rather write a paper than create a podcast.
While a good many of his students were punk fans before they took the course, Fournier says, not all of them were. “There’s one kid who’s a classical-composition student. No prior background. And he comes up to me after class and says, ‘Classical was written by the people in power, but this is written by the disenfranchised.’ I was just like, ‘You get it.’”
Listen to Fournier’s podcasts and read his syllabus at tuftspunk.blogspot.com.
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