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MUSIC 150
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Final Project - OPTIONAL
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Your optional Final project is an opportunity to
explore an area of US music of particular interest
to you.
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How to choose your topic? Every student brings a
host of musical experiences of, interests in and
knowledge about various styles and genres of U. S.
music into this class. Begin with music to which
you have a strong positive response (music that was
a part of your childhood, music that helped you
grow up, music that moves you, music new to you
that really strikes you when you hear it for the
first time in class); then select one or more
aspects of that music--its defining
characteristics, its social and/or cultural
context, its origins, its history--as a point of
departure for your project.
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Make sure your topic is manageable. A five page
paper on "Blues" or "Rock Music" cannot hope to
fulfill the demands of its subject in the allotted
length. Better would be "Rhythm and Blues:
1945-1960" or "Heavy Metal"--but even these can
barely be covered in five pages. Better still would
be a single artist, a small geographical area, a
single group, an even shorter amount of time, etc.
One very good possible source of topics is the
suggestions found at the end of each chapter of the
text. Make sure you check those possibilites.
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I need to approve your topic before you begin
work.. Send me an e-mail (wj1707@aol.com)
with a brieft proposal describing what you intend
to do BEFORE you begin work,. I will respond with
comments.
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All papers are due on Tuesday, December 3.
Papers should include, in addition to five pages of
text, footnotes and a bibliography of resources
used, including Internet resources.
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You can receive up to 15 extra-credit points for
your term paper. Papers are graded on the basis of
content (10 points), organization (3 points) and
mechanics (2 points).
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