For this essay you must compare and contrast at least three features of how our source materials dealing with Jamaica and Egypt have shown
– For this essay you must compare and contrast at least three features of how our source materials dealing with Jamaica and Egypt have shown us how the consumption and production of popular music is useful historical evidence.
– Your carefully designed discussion must include coverage of gender expectations/identities and power relations, and at least two additional relevant themes/topics of your choice.
– you might consider ways in which shifting power relationships and identities (ex. class, social geography (ex. rural/urban) functioned in these contexts.
*And/or you might consider how the sacred (Koranic School/Evangelical Church) and secular (Cabaret/Dance Hall/Radio) spaces operate these contexts.
*And/or you may want to consider the transnational (ex. how music travels beyond national borders).
*And/or you might consider debates about top-down versus bottom-up (review Corbett’s discussion of Adorno/Frankfurt School versus the Birmingham School) and assess how these contexts confirm or challenge these theories of how popular music works to reinforce the class system within capitalism or to give important voice to forms of resistance. Concerning this last theme, note that if you choose “both” it only shifts the problem around and then you still should be able to explain how and to what extent is it “both”.
These are only suggestions. While I do expect that you provide some coverage of gender expectations/identities and power relations, I am fully open to the other themes/topics you compare and contrast within this essay.
No sources should be used beyond our course materials. No wiki! No need to retell general points from these contexts to me (your audience), or to explain definitions from dictionaries. Rather, organize your own thoughts and carefully selected and cited (any for of citation is fine as long as it is consistent) body of evidence to develop your best possible ideas and examples based solely your work with our assigned materials.
Do not simply retell similar and different details related to Umm K. and Ivan M. as characters/figures/lives, rather use ideas and examples from these case studies as evidence of the production and consumption of popular music, evidence that will allow you to make/support/clarify larger claims about society, culture and historical experiences within both Jamaica and Egypt.
use aspects of the Corbett article that you find helpful for framing your ideas and evidence.
Down below are two films you can use as references as well :
Movie “The harder they fall”
each paper should use at least two references from each film, and at least a reference from every reading!
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