Welcome...and initial guidelines...

This blog will be used in the spring of 2008 by 80+ students at Drexel University to investigate the effects of Iraq on culture and the reverse. Our goal will be to better understand why the US is in Iraq, and to question whether literature can help us on this journey.

Weekly plans and other materials will always be posted in Vista, not this blog. So go to Bb Vista to get the discussion prompts and other instructions.

I intend this blog to manage our discussions and track our collective investigation.

You should have received an email from me inviting you to become a contributor to this blog. The email was sent Monday afternoon to your official Drexel email address.

Sunday, April 20, 2008

Minutes To Midnight

In the last few years since the Iraq Wasr began there have been an increasing number of songs and albums that carry a certain anti war message. One of the leaders has been Linkin Park. There new Cd Minutes to Midnight is an anti war cd that follows with their past anti war messages. The war is not a popular one in the minds of the American public and now artists are using that to both sell more albums and have new things to sing about all while singing about something that is important to them and impacts everyone. The can used their status as recording artists to try and effect the American public and maybe this will lead to a change. Especially with the primaries coming up and the NAtional Election following that maybe if enough artists get there message out about the war it can have an effect on what happens with the war in the future. This war is really effecting the music culture just as wars in the past and other large momentous events have caused similiar changes in the past. This is nothing new to the music industry and hopefully it continues because it can really help bring about change by making the current events more relevant to younger people.

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