Led Zeppelin Speaks! Assignment 3. WEEK 9 This week. Parliament Drops the Bomb, W. Punk: The Sound of Criticism? Heavy Metal Thunders On! Genre or Gender? Final assignment. Attendance: Students are expected to attend all lectures and discussion sections.
If a student misses more than three meetings, the instructor reserves the right to issue a failing grade. Reading: This course features roughly pages of reading a week in a textbook and additional readings. Be sure to complete the listening and viewing assignments as well as your readings. In a course on popular music, it would be a shame to privilege reading over other modes of communication, expression, argument, and experience! Assignments: Students must complete all assignments to pass the course.
These are designed to be fun, but they are also demanding—and perhaps for some, frustrating. Please be aware that historical analysis and musical analysis are not a science in the strict sense of the term. There is no purely objective, machine-like way to develop interpretation within the traditions of historical or musical meaning-making.
This means there is not some perfectly standardized way to evaluate your work. There is, however, a craft to this mode of thinking, writing, and reasoning. It is that craft that we will use evaluations to help you access, participate in, and improve your abilities. Your task is to develop effective and compelling evidence-based arguments informed by historical awareness and thinking.
These will often work by applying your judgment and assessment to consider how things connect or contrast to each other: how do different or similar songs, performers, genres, historical moments, geographic locations, etc.
And most importantly, why? Rather than test the breadth of your absorption of course materials, the assignments test your ability to wield knowledge of US popular music in order to mount effective and compelling evidence-based arguments. If this mode of evaluation is not to your tastes, I recommend that you do not take the course. Your assignments must be well written in order to communicate a convincing, compelling, and precise argument that is driven by our description and analysis of meaning in materials drawn from the course and other sources if needed.
We evaluate assignments based on the following rubric: 1 presence of an articulated argument, 2 presence of evidence, 3 compelling and precise connection of evidence to argument by comparing and contrasting details and their significance, and 4 logical flow and grace of prose: an effective opening introduction; the presence of clear topic sentences; the presence of effective transitions from one part of the assignment to the next; a compelling conclusion.
If you have any questions about evaluation in the course geared at helping you access and develop the craft of historical and musical analysis, please speak with the instructor or teaching assistants to discuss further.
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