The Electrate Blues

Authors

  • Pearce Durst Washington State University

Keywords:

electronic literacy, electracy, blues, music, rhetoric, composition, multimedia, multimodal, Greg Ulmer

Abstract

The following piece articulates a connection between blues music and electronic literacy. I visualize this connection by harmonizing the three dominant chords of the blues (one-four-five) with the three dominant modes of electronic literacy (audio-text-images). The content on each page contextualizes this relationship between music and electronic literacy both historically and personally. The inspiration for this work derives from connections I began to note while simultaneously learning how to play guitar and teach a class on multimedia authoring.

Author Biography

Pearce Durst, Washington State University

I am doctoral candidate in rhetoric and composition at Washington State University currently writing my dissertation on electracy as a rhetoric, and as a multimodal composition pedagogy.

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Published

2012-04-14

Issue

No. 7 (2012)

Section

Issue #7

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