The final project provides you with an opportunity to explore a topic of personal interest in greater detail. The three general types of projects are:
Fieldwork or ethnographic: This type of project is built around research in which you use tools of ethnographic scholarship to observe and write about a particular event. Papers could develop in any number of directions—for example, writing about performances of world music, visiting a festival, or observing ritual experience at religious services.
Analytical or theoretical: You may choose to explore an issue we have discussed this semester (such as appropriation, representation, authenticity, etc.) as it relates to a particular music culture. An examination of the relation between politics and music or between diasporic communities and their music is also a possibility.
Historical or area study: Some of you may choose to investigate a particular genre of music from an historical perspective, or consider how constructions of the past may influence modern understandings of indigenous music. Others of you might wish to come to a better understanding of a particular area of the world and the ways in which music addresses cultural, societal, and political issues within that area.
7 and 9 pages double-spaced
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USE THE DOCUMENT I UPLOADED!!!
USE THE DOCUMENT I UPLOADED!!!
USE THE DOCUMENT I UPLOADED!!!
Professor’s comment: The topic is interesting, but you need to be much more specific about what you mean by “Western deception on gender inequality in the perspective of Mulan Music.” What musical examples are you actually going to study, and how do you plan to find out about gender inequality through these examples? It is also unclear right now how gender is connected to the issues of cultural appropriation and representation in these cases. I suggest you to narrow your topic down and focus on one single issue and find two to three specific musical examples to work on. Your first source is written by an undergraduate student, but published in a peer-reviewed journal article so I’ll accept it this time. But do read it and see whom she cites and see whether the texts she cites are better for your project. Your second source is a book review, so it doesn’t count as an article. Cite the book that is being reviewed instead (by James Young). Your third source is not very relevant to your topic. If you need sources about gender and music, you should select sources about Chinese music and/or Disney movie music. Your fourth source is great. Read it and see what texts she cites.
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