This digital project was not that much fun as last semester’s. This “podcast” was a pain and gave me a lot of trouble because I didn’t know how to use any of the technology and even when I thought I had it, something else went wrong. Well I got it done, so that’s what counts. I settled on this idea thanks to Professor Kaufman and I thought it was a great idea, but it was much harder than I thought. It came out to be kind of long because of the elements I had to cover and the way I did the podcast, but hopefully that isn’t too much of a big deal. I ended up pursuing this as my digital project because I had no better ideas and figured this would be best to try and relate my paper as a whole in another form that wasn’t in writing. Both my paper and my podcast have a lot in common. They both discuss topics of equality and supremacy, Baraka’s views about these during the time he wrote “Black Art,” and the importance of education and literacy (now you know why I couldn’t make it any shorter).
The paper definitely helped the project because I had more of an understanding of what Baraka was trying to say in his poem and his main message behind everything. It also made me think about how to challenge Baraka in some of the lines that he said or wrote in “Black Art.” The project was very interesting, I have to admit. It was different than anything I had done before and intriguing to put together as I essentially did a close reading of his poem, but made it sound more like a debate/discussion about differing points of views. I hope that this allows the listener to just understand what Baraka was saying and the many differing views that were around during the late 60s. I believe that I could have made it better, but I guess this is the best its gonna get and the first time I ever cut/edited/recorded anything in my life like this, so don’t be so critical. Thank you!
