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Flower Drum Opera.

This paper explores Flower Drum Opera. The purpose of this assignment is to provide a sonic, historical, and social analysis of a musical example that connects to your own life experience – “Auto-ethnomusicology” means a study of one’s own musical and cultural ancestry.

Flower Drum Opera.

The purpose of this assignment is to provide a sonic, historical, and social analysis of a musical example that connects to your own life experience – “Auto-ethnomusicology” means a study of one’s own musical and cultural ancestry. This written assignment gives you an opportunity to explore your own musical heritage by researching your cultural/ethnic/religious/geographical/chosen background and analyzing the music that is part of this ancestry using the terms and concepts we studied in this course. This assignment will consist of: 1) a title, 2). a written portion (750-1000 words; more than 1500 words, not including bibliography, will be penalized),

Flower Drum Opera.

3) a YouTube link to a representative musical example of the highlighted music culture that will be the subject of your analysis, and 4) a properly formatted bibliography. The YouTube link does not need to be a proper video with moving images; if the sound is clear, that is fine. In addition to the YouTube link, within the body of your work, you must make reference to: A) Tim Rice’s “Ethnomusicology: A Very Short Introduction”, 2) (at least) one other course reading of your choice, and 3) (at least) two other academic sources of your choice (not course material). Critical to this assignment is to make use of terms and concepts we have explored in this class.

Flower Drum Opera.

To do so, refer to the lecture notes and test study guides to discuss as many terms as you wish – be sure to use them appropriately and with clear intention. If you come from a musical culture that we have covered in class, please do a deeper dive on the subject by either picking different music than what was played in class or providing details that were not covered thoroughly. Overly repeating content from the course will be penalized. This assignment can incorporate interviews with family members in addition to your own research, if such a thing will strengthen your analysis. These would need to be appropriately cited in your reference list.

Flower Drum Opera.

TIm Rice’s book, and many of our course materials, may offer inspiration towards generating a framework for your discussion paper. Additionally, this sample format may be helpful: Introduction: give a brief overview of yourself and your ancestral culture(s). Give a basic overview of one style/genre of music that you associate with this musical culture(s). Unpack its history, explain when and where it would be performed, discuss how it has changed (or not) over the generations. Pick a specific piece that you feel represents this musical culture and do an analysis of this song – add a YouTube link in the heading of your paper. https://youtu.be/tYTgMBrUC1M

Flower Drum Opera.

Your analysis of the piece should consist of: An explanation of the function of the piece – where and why was/is it played? Is it folk or art music? What is the relationship between the musicians and the listeners? What is the history of this piece? Is it traditional, with no known composer? Is it an original composition? What instruments are involved? How would you describe the sound of the instruments? What roles do they play in the music? How are they constructed? What is their cultural/geographical/historical significance? What kinds of musical textures and forms are used in this example?

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