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Below you will find my students' video essays from Composition II at Dakota State University. I invite you to watch the videos that sound interesting and to comment on the ones you especially enjoy. You can use the search tool, you can see which are most popular by checking "Popular Posts," and you can click on the tags below each posting to see what similar posts there are to ones you like. Enjoy!
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 11, 2019

Healing Powers; How Music can Reduce Stress, by Morgan Metzinger

How listening to music can help reduce stress

Rolling Loud, by Derek Degnan

Every music lover wants to see their favorite artists perform live- Rolling Loud Music Festival is able to bring all of today’s modern hip hop juggernauts into one weekend of the best live performances in modern music.

Tuesday, December 5, 2017

Wednesday, December 14, 2016

The Truth About Music Piracy by Erik Goff

Music piracy is something often viewed as a non-serious issue, when, in reality, it is a real crime with real consequences.

Thursday, December 8, 2016

The Truth About Music Piracy, by Erik Goff


Music piracy is something often viewed as a non-serious issue, when, in reality, it is a real crime with real consequences. 

Sunday, December 20, 2015

Music and Mental Health, by Joe Swanson


Music is used as a therapeutic tool for a variety of purposes, but studies have shown that listening to music can have negative effects on mental health as well.

Music & You, by Vinh Nguyen


Learning how to play a musical instrument is a highly beneficial and rewarding activity that every college student should pick up. 

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Emergence of Electronica, by Ross Steineke

Electronica has become a rich musical genre due to its diverse history, countless subgenres, and its spread in the modern music industry.

Sunday, May 1, 2011

The Day the Music Died, by Caleb Tollefson

Put A LIttle Dub in Your Step, by Dan Stephanich

dubstep--an exciting new kind of music taking the electonic music scene by storm.

Music Piracy, by Tyler Steele

Stop piracy before it destroys our music.

Autotune, the Pain and the Struggle, by Logan LeCompte


This video goes over how autotune has been criticized by artists in the music industry and how autotune has become part of today’s pop culture.

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

A Call to Arms, By Paul Schipper

A Call to Arms:  This presentation is about the problem and dangers of the cyclic consumption of homogeneous music.