Stone Gender, Identity and Ethnicity Issues
Focus Questions:
1. Based on the brief summary of feminism, gender, and sexuality in Stone, give an
example of how one of these issues is expressed in music that you are familiar with. If
you were a researcher i
Deion Baker
MUET 200- Fall 2011
Performance Paper- Performance of Identity
12/4/2011
Dr. Sandstrom
TA: Lizzie Goldman
Section 0108
Artist: J. Cole
Location: The Fillmore Silver Spring, MD
Date of Concert: 10/19/2011
J. Cole represents an intellectual hip
Deion Baker
MUET200 Fall2011
Response Essay
Dr. Sandstrom
TA: Lizzie Goldman 0108
11-27-11
Funk in Rio de Janeiro was seen as a social movement to combat extreme poverty,
violence, and racism in Brazil. This reading, The Funkification of Rio by George Yud
Deion Baker
Thought Paper #2
MUET200
TA: Lizzie Goldman 0108
11-13-11
On November 2, 2011 I attended a lecture performance called Water is Rising. The
performance took place in the CSPAC building on the University of Maryland, College Park. The
performers
Chris Fantini
Unit III, Section B: Pop-Ra and Globalization
Reading: Al-Taee Running with Rebels
Focus Questions:
1. How have the musical and social elements of Ra changed from its origins in the 1900s to its
emergence on the World Beat scene in the 1980s
Chris Fantini
UNIT IV, Section A: Musical Response to 9/11
Reading: Garofalo Pop Goes to War
Focus Questions:
1. According to Garofalo, mainstream popular music has always provided a window on
national politics. What examples does he give to illustrate th
Chris Fantini
Unit II: Chinese Rock Music and Cultural Identity
Huang Voices from Chinese Rock, Past and Present Tense: Social Commentary and
Construction of Identity in Yaogun Yinyue, from Tiananmen to the Present
Focus Questions:
1. What do the songs Ga
Chris Fantini
Unit III, Section A: Globalization and Japanese Hip Hop
Readings: Rose Voices from the Margins and Condry Japanese Hip-Hop
Web Site: Condry Japanese Hip-Hop (http:/web.mit.edu/condry/www/jhh/)
Focus Questions (Rose):
1. How does hip hop prov
Chris Fantini
Week 13: Funk in Rio de Janeiro
Reading: Yudice The Funkification of Rio
Listen to Audio and Video clips posted on Blackboard.
Focus Questions:
1. What group of people was originally associated with funk in Rio, and how are they
represented
Chris Fantini
Unit I, Section C: The Performance of Gender and Sexuality (Case Study: Womens
Music)
Readings: Sandstrom Womens Music: Passing the Legacy
Documentary: Radical Harmonies. producer/director, Dee Mosbacher ; coproducer, Boden Sandstrom. San Fr
How does music express positions on conflict (e.g, support, protest, social
indicator) - What did they think of the documentary clip from Get Up Stand
Up?
An example of this ^ is that during the Vietnam war the nation became
sorely divided on the issue a
Bertinus Johnson
Muet200
Section0109
April 30, 2012
Dr. Sandstrom
Angelique Kidjo-Performance Paper
On March 24, 2012, I decided to attend an Angelique Kidjo Musical Performance,
which was held at the GW Lisner Auditorium for my performance paper. The ide
Bertinus Johnson
Muet 200
Section 0109
Dr. Sandstrom
Thought Paper #1
The lecture/performance done by Mahiri Keita Edwards, his wife Lesina, and
younger brother whose name I cannot recall at the moment was very insightful in a
number of ways. The topic of
Unit II, Section A: Ethnicity and Identity (Case Study: Cajun, Zydeco)
Readings: Shelemay Case Study: Multiple Identities in Cajun and Zydeco Music
Focus Questions:
1. What are the cultural differences between the Cajun and Creole peoples?
2. How has Caju
Bertinus Johnson
Muet200
Section 0109
Dr. Sandstrom
Unit III, Section B: Pop-Ra and Globalization
Reading: Al-Taee Running with Rebels
Focus Questions:
1. How have the musical and social elements of Ra changed from its origins in the 1900s to its
emergenc
Bertinus Johnson
6 May 2012
Dr. Sandstrom
Muet200
Section0109
Funk in Rio de Janeiro
Reading: Yudice The Funkification of Rio
Listen to Audio and Video clips posted on Blackboard.
Focus Questions:
1. What group of people was originally associated with fun
Unit IV: Music and Resistance (Case Study: Apartheid in South Africa)
Reading: Shelemay Music of Power and Resistance
Documentary: Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
Focus Questions (Shelemay):
1. What are the different layers of meaning in Nkosi
Rap da Felicidade (Rap of Happiness)
All I want is to be happy
To live peacefully in the favela where I was born
To be proud and be aware
That the poor also have their place
My dear authorities, I dont know what to do
With so much violence Im afraid of li
Bertinus Johnson
Muet200
Section0109
April 25, 2012
Pop Goes To War Response Paper
During my week of discussion lead the topic analyzed and presented by our group
was focused around popular music after 9/11. With my response paper I seek to analyze
the im
Unit I, Section A: Ethnomusicology and Music-Culture
Readings: Titon The Music-Culture as a World of Music and Charry Jeliya
Focus Questions (Titon):
1. What is a soundscape? Stand still for a moment anywhere on campus and describe the
soundscape.
2. How
Bertinus Johnson
Muet200
Section 0109
Dr. Sandstrom
Focus Questions Week #1
1. What expressions of individual and/or collective identity are performed through the
music?
Each culture has their own different instruments, feel for music, and message that th
Bertinus Johnson
Muet200
Section0109
Dr. Sandstrom
April 9, 2012
Kianodai Gagaku Ensemble
I found the lecture/performance by the Kitanodai Gagaku Ensemble on April 4,
2012 at Dekelboum Concert Hall to be very interesting in a number of different ways. It
1
Fantini
Chris Fantini
MUET200-0106
Dr. Sandstrom
Kate Doyle
December 3, 2011
J. Cole Rapping has Himself
J. Cole is a new and upcoming rapper that has recently started to gain tremendous
amounts of success. Over the last few years especially, he as been
1
Fantini
Chris Fantini
MUET200-0106
Dr. Sandstrom
Kate Doyle
November 12, 2011
Response Paper: Rai Music
In Nasser Al-Taees article Running with the Rebels: Politics, Identity and
Sexual Narrative in Algerian Rai he discusses the origin of Rai music and
Unit III: Globalization and Cultural Identity
Topic: Applied Ethnomusicology
Readings: Anthony Seeger Theories Forged in the Crucible of Action: The Joys,
Dangers and Potential of Advocacy and Fieldwork
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