Our next class discussions will revolve around recorded music. We'll discuss the music industry, recording technologies, and different genres of music.
When you get the opportunity, read through the Underground Hip-Hop paper that is new on Blackboard. Read it for the sake of appreciating the most globally dominant form of music, but also as an example of thinking deeply about a topic from pop culture. We have, in this class, the opportunity to write about cartoons, Johnny Cash albums, the social impact of the Halo video game series, or anything else that we can link to mass communications. However, a paper about country music or video games should be as well thought-out as a paper about the Spanish-American War or the role of ATP in photosynthesis.
Those of you who follow Hip-Hop will find the material to be a few years old, but it still does a great job of going beneath the surface. Your papers for this class don't have to be nearly so long, but they should show interest in the subject, be well-researched, and should allow the reader to walk away with a new perspective.
Happy reading.
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