Re-presenting Subversive Songs: Applying Invention and Arrangement Strategies to Nontraditional Speech Texts

• In Event: G.I.F.T.S. Session II

Abstract

The goals of this activity are to demonstrate the importance of invention and arrangement when developing a text, to provide an opportunity for students to use PowerPoint and receive feedback in an “unofficial” presentation, and to reduce students’ levels of communication apprehension. Students are asked to listen to five protest songs, select one, and develop an effective and ineffetive presentation using PowerPoint and two different organizational patterns to re-present their reaction to the song.

Author

• Dacia Charlesworth, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne