Personal Identity Reflective Visual & Performing Arts Lab Report

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- Applicable Learning outcomes:
- Learn how to understand, discuss, and analyse music relative to its specific social and
historical context. (5)
- Critically engage with the music they encounter every day. (1)
- Describe and discuss music using key technical terms. (3)
- Develop stronger written communication on musical topics. (4)
- The reflective report will be focused on the relationship between music and wider society, as
well as your personal experiences of music, all of which will be learning about in Part II.
- You will choose to answer two ‘essay-style’ prompts to which there is no right or wrong
answer. Each answer should be a minimum of 500 words each (for a total of 1000 words
altogether).
- Points will be awarded for a coherent argument or explanation, your use of relevant technical
terms, your use of specific musical examples, and your use of properly cited outside
sources.
- Example prompts might include:
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MUS 115 LECA (Aulich) Spring 2020 (Emergency revision).
- Choose a song or piece that is significant to your personal identity (e.g. a worldview, an
interest/hobby, a memory, a subculture, etc), and relate the musical features and cultural
context to reflect on its significance to you (500 words).
- Using one or more of the protest music case studies as a guide, create your own case
study on a protest song of your choosing (500 words).
- Using the Adele case study as a guide, choose a very famous artist to write a similar report
on. You need not report on all four facets (500 words).

Reflective Report Answer any 2 (TWO) questions from the pool below. Each question is worth 20 points excluding extra credit. DO NOT CHOOSE A PIECE, GENRE, MOVIE/TV/VIDEO-GAME WE HAVE LOOKED AT IN CLASS. 1. Using one or more of the protest music case studies as a guide, create your own case study on a protest song of your choosing (500 words). • Be sure to include: • A brief summary of the context. What was being protested, why and by whom? Was there a specific event that caused the song to be written? • An overview of how the lyrics and the musical features relate to the political message and/or contribute to a listening experience that resonates with that message. • Include at least one reference to a specific lyric. • Include at least two references to specific musical features. • Reflect on your personal listening experience - how does the song make you feel? What musical features might be contributing to that? • For extra credit: Create a timeline of political and relevant biographical events leading up to the creation of the song, and its immediate aftermath (up to 5 points). • Reference any outside research, including websites/books/articles where you found basic facts. • Include a YouTube link to your choice of song. 1 2. Using the Grunge Rock and Reggae case studies as guides, briefly analyze a subgenre of your choosing (500 words). • Be sure to include: • One or two exemplary songs or pieces. • One or two musical conventions that are featured in them. • One or two lyrical themes that are featured in them. • An example of an influence from a different sub-genre. • Any non-musical associations made with the genre. • Any relevant social connections between bands/artists/groups. • For extra credit: Draw a diagram outlining those social connections in a manner of your choosing (up to 5 points). • Reference any outside research, including websites/books/articles where you found basic facts. • Include a YouTube link to your choice of song(s). 3. Choose a song or piece that is significant to your personal identity (e.g. a worldview, an interest/hobby, a memory, a subculture, etc), and relate the musical features and cultural context to reflect on its significance to you (500 words). • Be sure to include: • Some background on what personal significance of the song is, the idea that it relates to, and any non-musical associations you have made. • An overview of how the lyrics and the musical features relate resonates with you and with the wider context: • Include at least one reference to a specific lyric. • Include at least two references to specific musical features. • Reflect on your personal listening experience - how does the song make you feel? What musical features might be contributing to that? • For extra credit: Make a personal playlist of 5 songs with two sentences for each on how they are important to you (5 points). • Reference any outside research, including websites/books/articles where you found basic facts. • Include a YouTube link to your choice of song. 2 4. Using the Movie, TV, and Video Game case studies as a guide, create your own case study on a scene from a TV program, movie or video game of your choosing (500 words). • Be sure to include: • A brief summary of the point in the story where the scene is located, and the characters involved. • Is the music diegetic or none-diegetic? Does it stay this way all the way through the scene you have chosen? • An overview of how the musical features aid in one or more function(s) of the music for that particular scene (i.e. pacing, continuity, clarification, internal emotions, expectations and if applicable video-game specific functions such as interactivity and immersion): • Include at least one reference to a specific moment in the scene (supply a timecode). • Include at least two references to specific musical features. • Make sure you refer to the functions of the soundtrack music. • Reflect on your personal listening experience - how does the music in the scene make you feel? Does it play with your expectations in some way? What musical features might be contributing to that? • Include a YouTube link to your choice of scene. • Reference any outside research, including websites/books/articles where you found basic facts. • For extra credit (5 points): Produce a poster or diagram showing movie / videogame / musical genre influences on the soundtrack (for example, Left 4 Dead was inspired by Zombie Horror movies). 3 Grading guidelines The following are the guidelines I created for myself and give you a good indication of how your work will be marked. 1. Protest question - General: - +3 The answer is at least 500 words (-1 for every 20 words short, rounding to the fewest points deducted). - +1 The proper youtube links / other files are in place. - +2 Correct use of most or all technical terms (+1 for the use of technical terms at all). - +2 The referencing is sufficient (+1 for an attempt) - Context (/2): - +1 It’s clear what was being protested by the song (or if ambiguous, that ambiguity is clearly alluded to). - +1 It’s clear why the thing was being protested (either answered by the motives more widely for those doing the protesting, or for the artist personally). - Lyrics and musical features (/10): - +1 Specific lyric mentioned - +1 …and related to the political message. - +2 Two specific musical features. - +2 …and related to political message - +2 Personal listening experience, - +2 relating musical features / context to that in some way (convincingly!). - EC up to 5: +1 for each event on the time line, +1 if it is actually relevant. 4 2. Genre question - General: - +3 The answer is at least 500 words (-1 for every 20 words short, rounding to the fewest points deducted). - +1 The proper youtube links / other files are in place. - +2 Correct use of most or all technical terms (+1 for the use of technical terms at all). - +2 The referencing is sufficient (+1 for an attempt) - Exemplary pieces - +1 At least one specific piece is referred to - +1 At least one of them could fairly be said to be exemplary - +1 A musical feature is identified in the music supplied. - +1 That musical feature can fairly be described as a convention of the genre. - +1 At least one lyrical theme is identified in the music supplied. - +1 That lyrical theme could fairly be described as a convention of the genre. - +1 An influence from another sub-genre is mentioned - +1 and relatively well supported: (e.g. knew each other socially, mentioned in interviews, some musical feature is in both, etc.) - doesn’t have to be correct from an objective standpoint. - +2 Non-musical associations described (can be clothes, an attitude, aesthetics, so on). - +2 Relevant social connections made (or the absence is otherwise explained; perhaps this is an internet phenomena or something). - EC Up to 5: +1 for each person, +1 for each connection (can be multiple points for multiple connections even if its just one person) 5 3. Personal identity question - General: - +3 The answer is at least 500 words (-1 for every 20 words short, rounding to the fewest points deducted). - +1 The proper youtube links / other files are in place. - +2 Correct use of most or all technical terms (+1 for the use of technical terms at all). - +2 The referencing is sufficient (+1 for an attempt) - Background: - Explains personal significance by: - +1 Explaining any non-musical associations - +1 Explaining the idea that the song relates to. - Lyrics and musical features: - +1 A reference to a specific lyric - +1 How it resonates with them / wider context - +2 (1 for each) references to specific musical features. - +2 How it resonates with them / wider context - How it makes them feel: - +2 a reasonable explanation of how it makes them feel (i.e. emotionally). (1 if not very detailed) - +2 a reasonable explanation of why that might be (from a musical point of view). (1 if the musical. feature they have identified is unconvincing e.g. ‘I think it’s the major mode that makes me so depressed’). - EC Up to 5: +1 for each song listed, +! for each explanation. 6 4. Famous person question - General: - +3 The answer is at least 500 words (-1 for every 20 words short, rounding to the fewest points deducted). - +1 The proper youtube links / other files are in place. - +2 Correct use of most or all technical terms (+1 for the use of technical terms at all). - +2 The referencing is sufficient (+1 for an attempt) - +1 Some biographical information - +1 Some information on audiences - +1 Some information in marketing. - Exemplary pieces - +1 At least one specific piece is referred to - +1 At least one of them could fairly be said to be exemplary - +2 At least two musical features are identified in the music supplied. - +1 At least one specific lyric is identified in the music supplied. - +4 Those lyrics and musical features are pulled together to argue some kind of case (2) relating to one or more facets (2). - EC Up to 5: +1 for each person, +1 for each connection/role (can be multiple points for multiple connections even if its just one person). 7 4. Movie question (/20): - General: - +3 The answer is at least 500 words (-1 for every 20 words short, rounding to the fewest points deducted). - +1 The proper youtube links / other files are in place. - +2 Correct use of most or all technical terms (+1 for the use of technical terms at all). - +2 The referencing is sufficient (+1 for an attempt) - +1 Brief summary of where we are in the plot. - +1 Diegetic / non-diegetic mentioned. - +1 If they say whether or not it changes. - Musical features and functions: - +1 At least one function mentioned (pacing, continuity, clarification, internal emotions (video games also: immersion, interactivity). - +2 At least two references to specific musical features - EITHER: - +2 Each connected in some way to how they help deliver the mentioned functions. - OR: - +2 Musical features connected in some way to expectations. - If they do both, award 1 point each rather than two. - Listening experiences: - +1 How the scene feels. - +1 Which of the musical features are contributing to this. - EC (up to 5): +1 for each influence identified, +2 for each way they show how. 8