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Essay Instructions: Read (or re-read) David Byrne’s essay “Crossing Music’s Borders: I Hate World Music” (from The New York Times, October 3, 1999).

Choose some aspect or aspects of Byrne’s ideas as the basis to explore critically your own views on “World Music”. You must illustrate your ideas with reference to some form of marketing that you have encountered on the internet, in record stores, in movies, on television or radio – in fact, anywhere we encounter music in everyday life. Aside from references to Byrne’s essay you must also include at least one reference to each of Jeff Titon’s and Bruno Nettl’s introductory chapters to the books Worlds of Music and Excursions in World Music. You may use additional resources too, if you so wish. Although something of an opinion piece, you will nonetheless be more persuasive if you have a strong command of your information. Append a bibliography and ensure you cite properly any web resources you explore or consult.

I am often asked if you can use the first person in your writing. You may indeed use the first person if you wish. This is merely a matter of perspective, and if done well and sparingly it should not interfere with the objectivity of your work. The degree to which you may express subjective opinions in this essay depends on how you integrate those opinions, likes, and dislikes into the paper. It does not help me to know that you like or dislike something, but if you can offer an explanation that penetrates to the heart of the issue of your perspective on “world music”, you will have done a good job. When you do provide your own opinions, ensure you argue cogently and back them up with solid evidence.

I am also often asked if it will be okay to discuss this CD or that film, this TV show or advertisement or that radio program, etc. etc. Please know that what you choose to write about is purely your choice, not mine.

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This research paper should not just be a descriptions of the topic (whether it be a genre of music, an artist, a technology, etc...) but rather an argument about them (Bob Dylan brought social awareness and protest to popular music, for example). You must make a historical argument in this paper. Paper should be 10 to 15 pages in length and involve significant research.
Please provide sufficient examples to support argument. Also provide songs, statistics, etc. Try to give years (in parenthesis) after song titles, and cite quotations after the quotes.
Topic Options Are:

Pop Music in the 1960s
-Pop music, Motown, surf music, and the British invasion.
-Brill Building Pop
-Motown
-British Invasion (non-Beatles)
The singer/songwriter in country, soul, folk, and rock music, and the use of music as a cultural expression.
-Nashville
-R & B, Soul (non-Motown)
-Music and the Counterculture
Country, Rock, and Pop music in the 1970s and the rise of disco.
-FM Radio
-Album Rock
-Disco
Progressive country, reggae, punk rock, funk, and early rap as oppositional music cultures.
-FM Radio
-Reggae and Punk
-Funk and Early Rap
Technology, music videos, and popular musical celebrities.
-Music Videos
-Pop Stars
Hip hop culture, techno, grunge, and world music as alternatives to the mainstream.
-Hip Hop
-Alternative

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This research paper should not just be a descriptions of the topic (whether it be a genre of music, an artist, a technology, etc...) but rather an argument about them (Bob Dylan brought social awareness and protest to popular music, for example). You must make a historical argument in this paper. Paper should be 10 to 15 pages in length and involve significant research.
Please provide sufficient examples to support argument. Also provide songs, statistics, etc. Try to give years (in parenthesis) after song titles, and cite quotations after the quotes.

Essay Instructions: Analyze the music at a jewish worship service
Using the Merriam ethnomusicological model analyze the musical setting from a sonic, behavioral and conceptual perspective. Begin essay with introductory paragraph that includes focus of the essay and the musical topic. In body of essay in 400 words give background information about the music based on library research. borrowed material must be presented within quotation marks and all references must be included in bibliography
the main part of the essay 700 words must be an ethnographic narrative containing the following: 1)description of the audience members(ethnicity, gender, age) 2) a discussion of the musical sound(pieces sung or performed) 3)a description of the musical behavior of the audience members 4) a discussion of the musical concepts (emotional meanings and the function of the music. Include closing paragraph summarizing the insights from the worship service. In other words pretend that you have attended such a worship service
This essay is for an Intro to World Music Class
Ethnomusciology is an exploration of musical sound, musical concept and musical behavior and defined as the study of music as a cultural phenomenon.

Essay Instructions: Write a essay, that analyze two selections (one from each list below) for harmony and form. Write approx. 2 full pages of analysis and discussion for each selection. Discuss harmony and then form, using examples from the music, in the chronological order in which they occur in the music. For the final pages of the essay, after analyzing each of the two highly different musical selections, discuss your new perceptions and creative conceptions occurring from this exploration of harmony and form. You might respond to questions such as these in this final discussion: What is the interrelationship of harmony and form in the design of a musical piece? Do harmony and form seem more alike or unlike after doing this analysis? How? Has your 'listening experience' changed in doing this assignment?

Please use the following music for your ESSAY #5 listening.

You will have to order or borrow CDs for this essay assignment. Please obtain your musical selections IN ADVANCE to be able to complete the essay by the deadline.

Choose one world music or jazz selection from this list:

(This music is on the CDs that accompany our text.)
• #51 Cheumutemgure
• #58 Rag Kamod
• #17 The Comet

Choose one example of 20th Century Western classical music from the following list:

(You will have to borrow or purchase the CD for this selection.)
• Symphony of Psalms, Igor Stravinsky (first movement only)
• The Rite of Spring, Igor Stravinsky (any titled section)
• Petrushka, Igor Stravinsky (any titled section)
• The Firebird, Igor Stravinsky (Finale)
• A New England Symphony, or New England Scenes, Charles Ives ("The Housatonic at Stockbridge")
• Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, Bela Bartok (any one movement)
• Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta, Bela Bartok (any one movement)

Please ALSO submit with ESSAY #5 a list of at least 5 key terms and definitions you have learned in your reading assignments for MODULE 5. You can choose any 5 terms found in Module 5 Chapter readings or websites for MODULE 5 . Please attach to your ESSAY #5, as an 'addendum,' a list of these 5 terms with definitions to indicate you understand the meaning of the terms.