We will start each class with a song of some sort, loosely related to the topics to be discussed that day. See (and listen to) the full playlist on YouTube.
- “Cochabamba” (Fósforo)
- week 1a: “Games without Frontiers” (Peter Gabriel)
- week 1b: “The Name of the Game” (ABBA)
- week 2a: “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” (Cyndi Lauper)
- week 2b: “My Old Kentucky Home” (Paul Robeson)
- week 3a: “La Adelita” (Amparo Ochoa)
- week 3b: “Corrido del General Francisco Villa” (Los Tremendos Gavilanes)
- week 4a: “Me gustas cuando callas” (Brazilian Girls)
- week 4b: “Arriba quemando el sol” (Violeta Parra)
- week 5a: “Milonga de Manuel Flores” (J.L. Borges / A Troilo)
- week 5b: “Buenos Aires” (Fito Paez)
- week 6a: “Haitian Fight Song” (Mingus Big Band)
- week 6b: “Ghosts” (Japan)
- week 7a: “Macondo” (Celso Piña ft. la Orquesta de Baja California)
- week 7b: “You Pay Your Money And You Take Your Chance” (Bruce Cockburn)
- week 8a: “La casa en el aire” (Rafael Escalona)
- week 8b: “Ghost Town” (The Specials)
- week 9a: “Una furtiva lagrima” (Enrico Caruso)
- week 9b: “Welcome to the Jungle” (Guns N’ Roses)
- week 10a: “If I Had a Rocket Launcher” (Bruce Cockburn)
- week 10b: “Mayan Rap – Rap en lenguaje Tz’utujil” (Poesia Loca, Fernando Scheel)
- week 11a: “It’s No Game (No. 1)” (David Bowie)
- week 11b: “Sonido bestial” (Ricardo Ray and Bobby Cruz)
- week 12a: “Tengo miedo” (Sara Montiel)
- week 12b: “La Hora de Volvé ” (Rita Indiana)
- week 13a: “First Snow” (Emancipator)
- week 13b: “The End of the Game” (Weezer)
- week 13c: “Don’t Look Back in Anger” (Oasis)
Extra! A special playlist for reading Borges…
- “Milonga de Manuel Flores” (J.L. Borges / A Troilo)
- “Buenos Aires” (Fito Paez)
- “Lovers In A Dangerous Time” (Bruce Cockburn)
- “God Part II” (U2)
- “Rise” (Public Image Ltd)
- “Don’t Give Up” (Peter Gabriel ft. Kate Bush)
- “Lost In The SuperMarket” (The Clash)
- “Help!” (The Beatles)
- “The Robots” (Kraftwerk)
- “Robots” (Dan Mangan)
- “Glad its All Over” (Captain Sensible)
- “Music for 18 Musicians” (Steve Reich)
