Category: Art

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You are required to write a 7-page (double-spaced, standard tabs) research paper about a musical culture NOT covered in this course. Areas covered in this course include India, Indonesia, Japan, Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, so you can choose any part of the world OTHER than these. Some areas to consider are: Native America, Polynesia, Australia, China, Korea, Ireland, Portugal, Greece, Arctic Circle…. wherever, as long as it’s not covered in our course.
For this assignment, please use Nettl’s 3-part model, addressed in “Unit 1: Introduction” and Chapter 1 in our textbook. Focus on the Sounds, Behaviors and Ideas or Conceptions that govern the sounds and behaviors of the musical genre/activity you choose. It’s best if you stick to a specific genre or ensemble from whatever region you choose for this research paper. For example, if you wanted to write about music from Spain, don’t try to summarize all Spanish music (too broad, too big) but pick a specific genre or activity to focus on, such as Flamenco. Want to research Hawaiian music? Stick to hula or string bands. The point is, focus on one genre or activity from a region and give in-depth details, not just a broad, surface cultural overview.
Sound:
What sounds are you hearing? Talk about the instruments (and voices) of the musical genre/activity. What are they made of and what do they sound like? Are there any rules or restrictions surrounding these instruments, like who can play or when one can play? Can you comment on the texture and form of the music? Texture refers to layers of activity. How many musicians are present and how do they relate to one another? Form refers to how the music is organized and presented,. How long does a performance last and how are the melodies and rhythms arranged. Lastly, what does the music sound like to you, the outsider?
Behaviors:
What activities are associated with this musical genre/activity? What are people doing while this musical activity is happening? Is there a specific purpose or function surrounding this music, or is it just for enjoyment/entertainment? Does this musical activity have any behavioral restrictions regarding religion, age or gender? Is everyone participating communally or are the musicians/singers/dancers presenting music to an audience…. why? Lastly, can you draw any connections to musical behaviors in your life or culture?
Ideas/Conceptions:
What ideas or conceptions govern the sounds and behaviors of your chosen musical genre/activity? Why are people creating this music and why are people participating? Address ideas surrounding history, culture and musical evolution. Most musical genres throughout the world express indigenous and foreign, or outsider aspects. What traits are uniquely regional, or indigenous, and what traits are coming from an outside influence and why? Again, almost all music has a combination of both! How have politics, religion or human migration affected this musical genre/activity? Lastly, can you relate what you learned to your own life experiences?

Choose one of the themes below and discuss how it has affected popular music from the 1950s through the 1990s. You will need to provide multiple examples related to your chosen theme from each decade.
1- Critical Listening – Focus on stylistic elements of popular music genres and how these musical elements have evolved over time. How have musical genres borrowed different elements from each other? How have song forms, instrumentation, melodies/rhythms, timbre, and the lyrical content of popular music evolved throughout our course? You should cite and compare multiple audio examples from each unit to address this topic.
2- Music and Identity – How has popular music been shaped by individual and group identity throughout our course? How does music in turn reflect these ideas surrounding identity? Issues such as race, social structure, age, gender, fashion/trends, and politics should be addressed. How does music shape your personal identity?
3- Music and Technology – How has technology affected our popular music evolution? You may consider both the technology of creating/performing music as well as the technology for distributing, receiving, and consuming music.
4- The Music Business– What role has the music business played in affecting our popular music development? How has it changed, how has it stayed the same, what are some of the issues it has struggled with. Some ideas to consider are music genre creation, marketing, cross-promotion, copyright/licensing laws, and racial segregation.
5- Centers and Peripheries – This topic refers to the relationship between “mainstream” culture and its tendency to absorb cultural practices and styles that originate in minority communities. What are the primary centers of music production and why? Why do musical styles shift from the peripheries of society to the center or “mainstream” and what happens to the music when they do?
Your paper should be 7 pages (double-spaced, standard tabs) and include clearly organized paragraphs of content that move the reader chronologically through the decades with regards to your chosen thematic topic. You should only need to refer to the content from this course, but if you use any outside sources, please cite those sources at the end of your paper.

Digital Necromancy –
Digital Necromancy is the process of re-creating celebrities digitally, or otherwise bringing dead celebrities “back to life” in today’s entertainment. In SIX paragraphs (6-7 sentences per paragraph) explain if you feel that this ability to bring celebrities back to life (digitally) is a good or a bad thing. If you were a celebrity, would you put a clause in your will (as Carrie Fisher did that allows her to be in Star Wars or as Robin Williams did, disallowing any digital use of his image) to allow or protect against you being used in commercials or movies without your consent? What if you died in the 1960s and now your grand-nephew was putting you in beer commercials today? Is it OK, or is it wrong? Should only celebrities alive today (who realize that this technology is possible) be able to participate in this kind of after-death contract, as opposed to those who died over 30 years ago and would not have known to include a clause in their will prohibiting this type of usage of their image? You can bring up any other issues that you can think of on this issue in your writing.
Finally, try to find an example of a dead celebrity selling something today (apart from the ones exampled in the video). It can be just a photograph in an ad, or a moving image like a commercial or one in a movie (like President Kennedy reanimated in the film Forrest Gump). What do you think?
Watch the Time Magazine video “Digital Necromancy: Advertising with Reanimated Celebrities.”LinkLinks to an external site.
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Read about the artist Kerry James Marshall here: Artsy – Kerry James MarshallLinks to an external site.
Find three artworks online by Marshall that you find particularly interesting, lively, or moving. You may read museum information, watch videos or read internet articles to inform your description of your three chosen artworks. Be sure to list them by title (in italics) and date. Mix your description and critical reception of these artworks with the historical information found about them online, but be sure to put all outside information into your own words. No copy/paste.
Minimum 6 paragraphs (6-7 sentences per paragraph), Times New Roman, black, double-spaced. Attach the links to your sources at the bottom of your paper.
I cannot download attachments, so be sure that your work is ready to grade inside of the TurnItIn Canvas box.
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1.Select ANY IMAGE from the first 7 lessons of this class that has some PERSONAL SIGNIFICANCE for you. Personal significance, that is strong emotional or critical reaction to the image you choose is the entire point of this discussion. Choose from the modules. You may also discuss a related Image that is not in the modules, but ask the professor first. Avoid the big, famous post-card stuff like “Leonardo’s last Supper” because it’s low-hanging fruit and previous students have done it to death. Show me that you’ve done a deeper dive into the material. By the same token, If you select an image not relevant to the parameters, it will be deleted for being OFF-TOPIC. Off-TOPIC posts just confuse the discussion.
2. Do some research about the image and the artist and know a little bit about them. This need not be more than a few introductory words. Statements like ” I don’t know what that guy with the beard is holding but it looks like a stick maybe” just make you look foolish. Do a little work and find out who the guy is, what he’s doing and so on.
3. Write a PERSONAL REFLECTION about what the image means to YOU, how it informs YOUR your life or YOUR experience. This is the most critical item. DO NOT just give the class a few dull, Generic facts cribbed out of wikipedia or worse, padded with AI generated rhetoric. That’s a rip-off, and it’s not what this assignment is about. Write with your own voice. Nobody in this class is a robot. Don’t sound like one. Don’t try to sound like an Art critic or a travelogue reporter either. Proof read for sense and spelling by all means but never undermine your own voice.
Traditional testing tells me which facts about the course content you have have acquired, but discussions tell me how you’re applying that knowledge. Both are vital, and weigh equally in your grade assessment. In fact, no student may pass this course without the ability to put thoughts into written English. Make no mistake, literacy is a big deal. It’s also a project requirement. A few Students have tried to pass this course without doing any written assignments.
The end was sad, so please, don’t go there.
4. Post the image you selected along with a personal reflection essay of 450 -700 words. ALWAYS post in the discussion window. Links will not be graded. If I see a link in your discussion it tells me that you didn’t read the parameters.
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Initial essays WITH NO IMAGE VISIBLE WILL NOT BE GRADED

ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS Utilizing a provided Photoshop (.PSD) movie poster template file (shown below), use what you have learned so far in this class to create a SuperHero or SciFi movie poster by non-destructively combining 2 or more images together into one seamless and credible composite design. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS Please submit the following to your Assignments Folder: 1. The completed Photoshop (.PSD) file. Do not merge the layers together. 2. The individual images (2 or more) used to complete your poster design. 3. A JPG version of the completed project. 4. Submit a Project Reflection (see details below). 5. Include all of the fonts used. PROJECT REFLECTION Answer the following questions when you submit your assignments files. a. Did you select a Superhero or Science Fiction Movie? b. Describe your movie and provide the plot or story line (What happens in the movie)? c. Where did you find your images (include URL if image was downloaded from the Internet)? d. What modifications did you make to the images (describe what you did to complete the assignment)? e. What software applications did you use to complete your project? f. What fonts did you use to complete your project? g. How did you use layer masks to build your design and how did using them help you create a more professional looking poster? h. What issues or challenges did you face completing this project? Please submit your Project Reflection as a Microsoft Word document or just copy and paste your answers in your Assignments Folder’s text box when you submit your assignment along with the rest of the required project files.

3-page analysis of a chosen artwork. Must include historical/ cultural background of the
artist/artwork, description of artwork’s appearance (visual elements and principles of the artwork) and the meaning of the artwork based on your research.

Write a 1-page analysis of 1 artwork from the “Artwork Choices” document attached below.
Make sure to break down your analysis into the following sections:
Paragraph 1: What is the context or background information on the artwork?
Paragraph 2: Describe the Proportion and Scale of the artwork, how do these elements/ principles affect the overall appearance of the artwork? How do they help convey the artwork’s message?
Paragraph 3: Using the “Function and Purpose” document attached as guidance, what function/ functions does this artwork have and why? Base this answer on the information you wrote in the previous 2 paragraphs.
Document formatting:
1-page (it is ok if your writing goes to 2 pages)
Double-spaced
Font size 11
*DO NOT INCLUDE IMAGE OF ARTWORK, JUST STATE TITLE OF ARTWORK AND ARTIST’S NAME