We cooked soba noodle bowls (yum!), kicked back, and popped in this documentary about the Zaire music festival of 1974, which was put on at the same time as the Rumble in the Jungle boxing match:
So good. I can't even handle how fascinating it was, to watch this documentary and think about all the rhetorical moves being made. First of all, there was just a lot of great music. But, beyond that, there were political issues, and socio-economic issues that had us talking well into the night. The great thing was that there wasn't anything too preachy about said issues--they were just there, for viewers to notice. I've actually been dreaming up ways to use this in my composition classes: what arguments are being made here? By whom? For what purposes?
Good stuff, for date night, and for teaching...
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