Title: Freshman Water Polo CD’s
General Information about Item:
- Customary: Rites of Passage
- Example: Customary Folklore: Rituals, Traditions
- Language: English
- Country where Item is from: USA
Informant Data:
- Caleb Smith, 20, male. Smith was born in Los Angeles, CA, and is currently on the club water polo team. Although, he had no prior experience before attending Dartmouth, he has already experienced a great deal of success on the team, as Dartmouth took home the Ivy League title last year.
Contextual Data:
- Often times, to become fully admitted to a group, one must go through some type of trial or rite of passage. These rites can be painful, long, tedious, fun, or goofy (up to the discretion of the group). The following item is one of the goofier rites of passage.
Item:
- Every freshmen must create a CD and compile 36 songs, such as one Drake song and one Latin American song that no one has heard before to present to the water polo team.
Associated file (a video, audio, or image file):
Informant’s Comments:
- The informant adds that they intentionally make it difficult for the freshmen and turn them back many times before they finally accept the CD. He jokingly added, “a lot of these kids were born in 2005. They’ve never seen a CD, which makes it hard.”
Collector’s Comments:
- This group project appears to be a rite of passage designed to both test how dedicated a new member is by assigning them a tedious task and also bring the new members together as they must spend time creating the CD’s all together.
Collector’s Name: Brandon Lee
Tags/Keywords:
- Rites of passage, playlist, CD