-Write a 3-4 page persuasive essay that tracks and explains a development in popular music you believe is historically significant. To do so, use the three artists/acts, from the list below.
IMPORTANT: I need you to write me WHAT development you want to write about, and the Thesis statement for approval first (as soon as you accept the assignment) . Please give me a few options so we don’t have to go back and forth.
The List:
- “Good Vibrations” written by (Love-Wilson); recorded by The Beach Boys (1966)
Focus Event: TIME magazine warns dangers of LSD
- “Respect” written by (Redding); recorded by Aretha Franklin (1967)
Focus Event: Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated
Focus Event: Robert F. Kennedy assassinated
- “Purple Haze” written by (Hendrix); recorded by Jimi Hendrix Experience (1967)
Focus Event: The publication of the issue of Rolling Stone
Focus Event: Monterey Pop Festival
IMPORTANT: I need you to write me WHAT development you want to write about, and the Thesis statement for approval first . Please give me a few options so we don’t have to go back and forth.
The format of the paper:
-Title (let reader know the specific subject you’ll be considering)
-Introduction (with a killer thesis statement on “ A development in popular music you believe is historically significant” and where you clearly let the reader know what each body paragraph will be about/ also introduction must name each artists and the specific songs studied/plus period)
-3 or 4 body paragraphs
-conclusion (must be a summary of the essay -if I read the conclusion I must be able to understand the entire essay).
Citations:
The readings I will attach will be required to be cited. There are 3 readings per artist (to make it easier for you the readings related to Aretha I will add a “ARETHA” in the beginning of the file name, for Jimi “JIMI”, and for The Beach Boys “BOYS”)– NOT ALL THE READINGS I AM ABLE TO ATTACH SO I WILL ATTACH the rest once you accept(I was able tom attach 5 out of 9)
External citations from credible sources are also required.
YOU MUST:
-For all informations on the artists, you must STICK to the year/time of the song given (Not their entire careers or other parts of their careers).
-The thesis statement must be extremely clear. The class is on history of popular music, and over explaining ‘arts’/’what music does’ etc will not be accepted as the professor already knows it. Meaning, it must be written in a “musician’s perspective”.
-An outline is needed (in the outline, please write the entire thesis statement).
-Events that happened during the song are important factors (events are under each song on the list).
-Keep in mind visual aspects, fashion, musicality, geography, economy, race, gender, if the artists are singer-songwriter or fabricated artists(songs are written for them), the rise of an increased visual culture, rock and roll being breached out of R&B.
-focus on SPECIFICS – do not be vague, or give clues, be very very specific. Specificity is key for this assignment.
-Do not make big Claims! Because big claims are usually hard to support.
-Every time you make a claim, you MUST support with examples(citations) and FACT check them.
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