Paper 1 Descripton
Paper 1 15% = 15 points

Two songs that are covered during the first four lectures will be compared and contrasted. The songs must be chosen from the provided lists  – one from list one and one from list 2 -and the paper should be no shorter than 3 pages (excluding bibliography). A bibliography must be included with proper citations for the songs themselves and at least 2 proper references.

One of the references should be Stinging Like Tabasco by Imani Perry

The paper is due on Monday, Nov 9that 11:59 pm and will be submitted via Canvas.

Be sure to listen to all of the songs and choose ones that you feel that you may have a lot to say about, and remember, youre comparing the songs not how you feel about the songs.

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Starting Points

You do whats asked 2 songs from the lists, 3 pages long, bibliography, both compare and contrast the songs, offer equal opinion and insight into both songs, offer proper support for info=15 pts before deductions.

Miss major elements only one song, songs are from the same list or are not on the list, no bibliography, 1.5 pages or less. 7.5 points before deductions.

Deductions at the discretion of the TA, but examples include unsupported/wrong information, incorrect citations, obviously poor effort, didnt compare songs but wrote about how one feels about the songs, skate.

Cheat = 0 and a report to AI

Song lists for the assignment

List One

De La Soul Me, Myself and I

Roxanne Shante – Roxanne’s Revenge

Grandmaster Flash The Message

Public Enemy Dont Believe the Hype

List Two

Kurtis Blow The Breaks

Snoop Dogg Who Am I ?

ODB Brooklyn Zoo

2 Live Crew – Me So Horny

Some content ideas:

Use Imani Perrys Stinging Like Tabasco to compare the types of flow.

Compare  the way that the beat is created

Compare the use of Signifyin in the lyrics.

Compare the environments that the songs came from and how we hear them.

Compare the intention of the lyrics.

Compare anything else that you hear and that you feel is important to understanding the songs !