The course which is entitled Reading and project work for teaching literature for ESL students allows all the students to have experience in doing their project paper where all the students will do research on the topic they planned to do with. I feel this is a kind of practice or introduction for us where it would give us a picture how we have to come out with thesis paper when we do our masters later on. First class made me full of excitement and worried where I start to think about how difficult this course would be. As far as i heard about this course from my seniors they said we have to come out with written work then have to went through a lot of editing until finally accepted by supervisor. During the first class we was introduced to two songs where one of the song that was introduced to us as first song was sung by Sain Zahoor Ahmed was really mesmerized me. Although the wording not able to understand by us but the way the artist formed the song make us really enthusiastic towards listen and enjoy the song. The equipment that was used to produce music make me enthralled through the song. Although the song was played around eight minutes but it was really wonderful. When I take incentive to figure out Sain Zahoor Ahmed I able to find out that Saieen Zahoor or Saeen Zahur Ahmad (b. around 1940) is a leading Sufi musician from Pakistan. He spent his life singing in the Sufi shrines, and had not cut a record until 2006, when he was nominated for the BBC World Music awards based on word of mouth. He emerged as the "best BBC voice of the year 2006"[, an award that had earlier recognized other prominent Sufi singers such as Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Abida Parveen. Sain is not his first name but a Sindhi honorific title and is also spelt Saeen or Saiyan, and Zahoor may be spelt Zahur. Sain Zahoor known for his "Magical" Voice which is known to put his listeners to trance. (Wikipedia)
The second song that was played to us during our class was entitle Alejandro by Lady Gaga. We was asked to listen the song where we was not allowed to watched the video because of the uncensored scenes. The thing that I able to recalled from the song Alejandro is the word Alejandro it self where as far as I concern the music was really nice but I not able to get the meaning of the song and when I browse through internet to find out the meaning of the song there where no specific meaning was given. This are the few issues that make me not able to come out with a conclusion what the intended meaning of the song. I manage to find out some general information about the song. It is the third single from her second studio album, The Fame Monster (2009). Co-written and produced by RedOne, it is composed as a mid-tempo Europop song with an uplifting melody, where Gaga sings about bidding farewell to her lovers. It was inspired by Gaga's "Fear of Sex Monster". Critics noted it to be heavily influenced by ABBA and Ace of Base, and predominantly gave positive reviews for it. A music video for the single, which was directed by photographer Steven Klein, was released on June 8, 2010. It was inspired by Gaga's love for her gay friends and admiration of gay love—"her envy of the courage and bravery they require to be together". The music video portrays Gaga with a group of soldiers in a cabaret, dancing to the song. It is interspersed with scenes of Gaga as a nun swallowing a rosary and near-naked men, holding machine guns. The music video received from mixed to positive reviews, with critics complimenting its idea and dark nature, while the Catholic League attacked Gaga for her use of blasphemy, despite Klein dismissing the idea and claiming the scene in question (the swallowing of the Rosary beads) was Gaga's "desire to take in the Holy". ( Wikipedia).
Both two song come out with some kind of message to us its depend on our understanding and how rational thinkers we are so better appreciate artistic work rather than criticizing it.
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