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Your Profile should include:
A title, including the name of the artist, in bold
Your Profile should include:
A title, including the name of the artist, in bold at the top of the blog design window.
A short biography/overview of the artist(s) musical career focusing on the historical and cultural context of the artist’s work, the artist’s major musical/stylistic innovations (if applicable), and influence on other artists. This should NOT look like a wikipedia entry, but rather a present a clear argument about why your artist is important to one or more of the genres discussed in the course and/or their relevance in the history of African American music in the 20th century more generally. (500-1000 words)
A short analysis of a recording or album by the artist(s) (see detailed instructions below, ~500 words)
A few concluding remarks (no more than 500 words)
A Select Discography: a list of important albums or singles released by the artist(s) (if applicable).
A Select Bibliography. This should include but does not need to be limited to the sources you used in researching the artist (see Writing/Citation Best Practices for more about citation and bibliographies).
AT LEAST one relevant sound recording (in mp3 format, Spotify embed, or from YouTube [see following page for Adding Audio-Visual Media instructions]).
AT LEAST one additional relevant embedded video.
The text of your presentation (excluding Discography and Bibliography) should be in the range of 1,500-2,000 words.
Research Requirement
While you can draw from the lectures and supplemental course readings for your profile, you are required to conduct outside research as well. You are required to include a bibliography of at least five sources with your project. No more than one of these can be wikipedia, Biography, allmusic, Genius or similar sites. I encourage you to do a search on the Rutgers library site for your topic as well as in popular music magazine websites like billboard.com, downbeat.com, jazztimes.com or rollingstone.com. You should aim to include at least one source that is of an academic/scholarly nature (a book, article
The Song Analysis consists of three components:
1. An introductory paragraph that addresses the following:
What is the name of the song and when was it recorded?
What is the significance of this song to you?
When would you listen to song like this? What function might it serve?
2. A timed “musical outline” of the musical events in the song (see below). This portion should show:
The different sections of the song as they align to a song form. If the song does not match an existing form discussed or if you are not sure what traditional form is best, you can attempt to create your own terms to define sections of the song as long as you are clear and consistent.
At least the first lyric from each section.
The instruments/vocal parts present in each section with some discussion of “what they are doing” (i.e. providing a groove, taking a solo, playing a riff, singing the melody, etc.) and how they contribute to the “musical texture” (the total sound created by the instruments)
3. One to two paragraphs that reflect on the “musical outline,” including, but not limited to responses to the following:
What is the style/subgenre of this recording? (If it is in a style/genre not covered in class, what style/genre does it remind you of?)
Which song form does it fit best (12-bar blues, Verse-Chorus, AABA, other)? How might this reflect the song’s genre designation?
What is the historical significance or context of the song? Who might be the target audience?
How do the details of this song relate to your expectation of the group/genre/historical time period in question?
EXAMPLE: “That’ll Be the Day” Timed Musical Outline
:00-:03 – INTRO: Electric guitar riff
:04-:18 – CHORUS: “Well, that’ll be the day…”
Lead vocal singing lyrics and melody (see above)
Backing vocals singing some lyrics, oohs and ahhs
Guitar, bass and drums accompanying (drummer plays a shuffle rhythm with a backbeat)Instruments drop out for a second right before the start off verse 1
:19-:32 – VERSE 1: “Well, you give me all your lovin’ and your turtle dovin’…”
Lead vocal singing lyrics and melody in Buddy Holly “hiccupping” style
Backing vocals singing oohs
Guitar and bass alternate between two chords
Drums plays a shuffle rhythm with a backbeat
:33-:48 – CHORUS (same lyrics, melody and texture as chorus 1)
:49-:57 – Guitar Solo – descending, repeating line
:58-1:03 – Guitar plays chords, drummer alternates pattern from standard beat to ride cymbal and then tom toms
1:04-1:11 – Guitar solo again, ending with “intro riff”
1:12-1:27 – CHORUS (same lyrics, melody and texture as chorus 1)
1:28- 1:41 – VERSE 2 (8 bars) “Well, when Cupid shot his dart…” (same melody and texture as verse 1)
1:42-1:56 – CHORUS (same lyrics, melody and basic texture chorus 1)
1:48-1:50 drum fill on tom toms
1:51-END – OUTRO “Well, that’ll be the day, whoo-hoo…”
ends with drum fill and version of “intro riff”
Alternately, you can chose to write about an entire album discussing the album organization, genre associations or another feature that you think is important (refer to the second Beatles lecture for examples). While your analysis of the song/album should be rooted in the concepts presented in the course, feel free to put your own spin on it. The point here is to convey what speaks to you about the recording (affectively, historically, etc) in your analysis. Throughout the lectures I have taken a variety of approaches to discussing musical examples. Feel free to draw from these if you find it a helpful.
Research Requirement
While you can draw from the lectures and supplemental course readings for your profile, you are required to conduct outside research as well. You are required to include a bibliography of at least five sources with your project. No more than one of these can be wikipedia, Biography, allmusic, Genius or similar sites. I encourage you to do a search on the Rutgers library site for your topic as well as in popular music magazine websites like billboard.com, downbeat.com, jazztimes.com or rollingstone.com. You should aim to include at least one source that is of an academic/scholarly nature (a book, article or encyclopedia entry, for example). Your project should be in your own words. Feel free to quote other sources to a limited degree but make sure that a) you properly cite your source and b) that the majority of your presentation is your own writing. The exception to this is the discography as this is more or less a list of facts (Performer/Composer, Title, dates, track listing, etc.). You can create your own discography or copy your discography from an external source as long as you credit where you got your information. Please refer to the “Writing/Citation Best Practices” page for guidelines about style and references and review the “Avoiding Plagiarism in your Work” page before submitting your project.
For the Analysis, chose one song or one album to address. Your presentation should include an mp3 or embedded YouTube video of the song you addressed (or selections from the album). This portion of the assignment is intended to gauge your critical listening skills, not your research methods. To that end, I would like to stress that you should not use any outside resources when preparing this section. I would rather you make your own educated (and supported) guess about what you are hearing than quote other people’s observations. What is important for this section is that you to apply the concepts you learned in the early units of the course to this recording.
the singer is Tupac
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