2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Please, Democrats: Don’t Attack Bernie Sanders for Joining Your Party - Joan Walsh [View all]pangaia
(24,324 posts)Why my goodness, I do remember doing a senior thesis on the history of jazz in America. You are right.. File cards all over the living room floor....
Um., lets see. I flunked French twice in college... but did pass German... helped by the fact that my German professor looked like Gustav Mahler, and we spent hours discussing and listening to Mahler symphonies.
My MM master's thesis concerned particular areas of Kabuki and Noh. It was a grind, I tell you. All those musicologists with pens in their pocket protectors and brief cases in the thesis class.. and ... me
I received a DMA, which is a performance degree (or as some might say, I "took my doctorate" but still had to write a dissertation.. Ugh.. hated very minute of it.. Much preferred actually playing music.