Ok, put away your notebooks and pull out your Zunes. You didn’t think you were going to get through this class without some type of test did you? If Marques is the professor who as been leading this wonderful and informative class, think of me as the grad student who is merely here to proctor the final exam. The best part? It’s a take home exam to be completed at your leisure. If only there were more of these in college…

Enjoy another social playlist, featuring all of the artists and concepts mentioned this month as well as a few tracks that were mentioned in the comments section after each lecture. The track progression goes in rough chronological order with the lessons. So, if you want to, follow along, starting at the beginning. Be sure to save the playlist to your Zune collection’s playlist folder (find that folder quickly).

A personal note on the first track. It is composed by British-born black composer, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor [zune.net]. He composed classical music towards the end of the 19th century. While he was best known for his cantata Hiawatha's Wedding Feast, [zune.net] he had written other classical works in his lifetime. It turns out that one of the men responsible for the first modern playing of these “other” classical works was my former high school cantata choir conductor, William Thomas. While I never played an instrument (beyond recorder), I did sing tenor. At the time I sang with him I did not know this. It was only after looking for a fitting beginning track to this social playlist did I come across this fact. It’s interesting to note how small of a world we live in.