Category: Art

these are two different pages so the can be different people.
Paper 1:

In 6-8 paragraphs let us know about your favorite artist and why they are important to you. Give a background of how you came to know the artist and drew you into to them. Use the following guideline to organize your assignment.
Paragraph 1 – Introduction
#2 – How you came to know the artist
#3 – What about the artist caught your attention
#4-#6 – Specific elements of the artist that stick out to you. (One element per paragraph)
#7 – Give a specific musical example that encompasses all that you like about this artist. Include a video example using Mashups.
#8 – Closing

Paper 2:

Using the same project construction outline of your favorite artist assignment pick a composer that we’ve covered in this class. Then write your assignment from the point of view of them being your favorite composer and you living in that time period.
Favorite Composer Assignment
In 6-8 paragraphs let us know about your favorite composer and why they are important to you. Give a background of how you came to know the artist and drew you into to them. Use the following guideline to organize your assignment.
Paragraph 1 – Introduction
#2 – How you came to know the composer
#3 – What about the composer caught your attention
#4-#6 – Specific elements of the composer that stick out to you. (One element per paragraph)
#7 – Give a specific musical example that encompasses all that you like about this composer. Include a video example using Mashups.
#8 – Closing

Based on the video above, Part 1 of Jazz, by Ken Burns, answer these questions.

1. What is one new or surprising thing you learned from the video? (A one sentence answer is fine.)

2. Prepare an essay describing the historical and cultural conditions and events that led to the development of jazz in New Orleans in the early 20th century (as depicted in the video). How did these conditions/events lead to the particular musical characteristics of jazz?

Your essay should be about one page in length, (including your short answer to question #1), and should use good English structure and correct spelling. The assignment is worth 10 points.

Grading
Here is the rubric I will use for grading:

Did the essay:

Answer the first question? 1 point

Describe the historical and cultural conditions and events that led to jazz? 4 points

Tell how these conditions/events led to the specific musical characteristics of jazz? 4 points

Correct spelling, punctuation, word usage, sentence structure. 1 point

Total points: 10

Based on the video above, Part 1 of Jazz, by Ken Burns, answer these questions.

1. What is one new or surprising thing you learned from the video? (A one sentence answer is fine.)

2. Prepare an essay describing the historical and cultural conditions and events that led to the development of jazz in New Orleans in the early 20th century (as depicted in the video). How did these conditions/events lead to the particular musical characteristics of jazz?

Your essay should be about one page in length, (including your short answer to question #1), and should use good English structure and correct spelling. The assignment is worth 10 points.

Grading
Here is the rubric I will use for grading:

Did the essay:

Answer the first question? 1 point

Describe the historical and cultural conditions and events that led to jazz? 4 points

Tell how these conditions/events led to the specific musical characteristics of jazz? 4 points

Correct spelling, punctuation, word usage, sentence structure. 1 point

Total points: 10

FOR VIDEO:

This video is from the longer series, JAZZ, done by Ken Burns.  The first episode, Gumbo, gives the background of jazz, and shows the cultural mix that existed in New Orleans that made the development of the music possible.  Although the music didn’t really develop until the beginning of the 20th century, the video begins before the Civil War, when the various cultures began to settle in New Orleans.  “Gumbo” is a thick soup containing a mix of various meats and seafoods, rice, and vegetables.  This is a metaphor for the mix of cultures that existed side by side in the city.

The video is 86 minutes long, and may take some time to load.  So wait, even if it takes several minutes, and even if it doesn’t seem to be doing anything.

To view the video, go directly to the library’s homepage, which is

http://www.laspositascollege.edu/library/index.php

Then click on the link Audio, Video, Image in the first column, which will bring you to another page where you can click directly on American History in Video.
At that point, you will need to login with your W number and PIN.

And here is the link to American History in Video that will allow you to login in remotely:

http://lpc1.laspositascollege.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.alexanderstreet.com/history

You  will then be required to login with your W number and PIN. You  can then search videos by title.

(I can provide login )

All readings attached. Please respond to the questions below:

Sister Rosetta Tharpe Written Assignment (1 of 2)
Shout, Sister Shout by Gayle Wald, questions about Chapters 1-4

1.    In Chapter 1, author Gayle Wald describes aspects of Sister Rosettas background and her hometown of Cotton Plant, Arkansas. In weeks 2-3 of this class you learned a great deal about the hometown of Florence Price, who grew up nearby in Little Rock and was roughly the same age as Katie Bell, Sister Rosettas mother. What parallels can you draw between what you learned about Florences world in Little Rock and life in Cotton Plant at roughly the same time? (Please write 150 words, min.)

2.    Chapters 1-2 describes the particular religious denomination in which Sister Rosetta was raised. What was this denomination called, what were its distinctive characteristics/origins, and in what ways, according to the author, did the church provide Rosettas earliest musical template, the sound palette on which she would draw throughout her career? (p.10) (Please write 200 words, min.)

3.    Chapters 3-4 describes Tharpes move to New York, success at the Cotton Club, Caf Society, Savoy Ballroom, and a moment of virtual overnight celebrity at a concert called From Spirituals to Swing at Carnegie Hall. For this question, go listen to a live recording from 1938 of this event. Listen to Thats All and Rock Me (these start at 41:05/tracks #17-18 on the video). For an interesting comparison you can also listen to her commercial recording of “Rock Me” from earlier that year, and the big band/swing version of the same song she recorded with Lucky Millinder soon after. What does Wald have to say in Chapters 3-4 about why Tharpes musical style and stage persona was so appealing at this particular moment in time? (Please write 200 words, min,)

Sister Rosetta Tharpe Written Assignment (2 of 2)
Shout, Sister Shout by Gayle Wald, questions about Chapters 5-7 and epilogue

1.    Chapter 5 is about the musical partnership between Rosetta Tharpe and Marie Knight. Crank up the songs Up Above my Head https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-Jr-W6A5rs and Didnt it Rain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJLSbDPqfCE  and reflect on what you learned about this relationship from this chapter. (100 words, min.)

2.    Chapters 6-7 discuss (among other things) Rosettas life on the road as a touring musician, constantly hustling in service of her career. What did you learn about that aspect of her lifestyle? (100 words, min.)

3. At certain points throughout the excerpts of this book, Wald shows how Rosetta Tharpe was sometimes uncomfortable moving between the world of black sacred music (gospel) and the secular (and often white dominated) spaces of popular music. Looking back on the chapters youve read, what moments caused ambivalence or discomfort for Rosetta, and what are your thoughts more generally about how religious and secular music mix in the marketplace, and how race might potentially complicate this? (200 words, min.)