Overview
The technical format and requirements are:
Times New Roman font, double spacedBetween
Chicago (Links to an external site.) author-date or notes-bibliography format and citation style, orMLA (Links to an external site.)format and style. Footnotes, endnotes, works citied, and in-text citations and quotes, and margins should follow the style you choose. Remember, you must cite all of your sources, regardless if you use a direct quote from them or not.
A title page, with the title of the paper, your name, date. There should not be a heading on the first page of the prose.
Page numbers starting after the title page.Here are some more sources to help you. Some are specific to writing about music. In text, songs are in quotes, albums or mixtapes are italicized.
Music specific:
https://writingcenter.unc.edu/tips-and-tools/music/ (Links to an external site.) https://elon.libguides.com/music/cite (Links to an external site.)
https://libguides.uwlax.edu/c.php?g=273990&p=4371588. (Links to an external site.)
Requirement:
1. Analysis from at least two songs, one is Doo Wop (That Thing) by Lauryn Hill, one is from 1989-2009 in the Southern Rap Canon. https://www.npr.org/2020/08/07/899849680/the-south...
2. Content from the pictures I gave.
3. Use one more song(You choose) to provide evidence for your argument.
4. One of your external sources must be from a book, ebook, magazine, or newspaper (Billboard, New York Times, LA Times, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek,etc.)
These requirements are to insure you turn exclusively to websites as resources. Do not use wikipedia as a resource. Reliance solely on websites for this project will not be sufficient.
Some digital sources you may use, among others, include:
- Discogs for album credits (who did what on an album) https://www.discogs.com/Drake-Nothing-Was-The-Same/release/8868835 (Links to an external site.).
- Who Sampled for trying to figure out what samples are used in Hip Hop songs https://www.whosampled.com/ (Links to an external site.)
- Podcast, like NPRs' Microphone Check ( https://www.npr.org/sections/microphonecheck/ (Links to an external site.)) and The Cipha (http://theciphershow.com/ (Links to an external site.)).
- Red Bull Music Academy lectures https://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/lectures/marley-marl-tokyo-2014 (Links to an external site.).
- Netflix programs, like Hip Hop Evolution or Rhythm + Flow
Requirements: Argumentative Essay | 8 pages, Double spaced