West Coast Hip Hop of the ’90’s

This paper is based on a guiding research question about a genre of music and a societal issue. West Coast Hip Hop of the ’90’s is the genre. Create a question about some aspect of society in relation to the genre, specifically discuss some background of the genre, some bibliography information on musicians you choose […]

Analysis of Louis Armstrong – West and Blues 1928

 Song : Louis Armstrong – West End Blues 1928. For the paper, write one paragraph that describes the ensemble and song as a whole, identifying which instruments are playing the lead melody and rhythm sections. Describe the way the instruments (and voice) sound and work together as a whole. Use vocabulary of rhythm and tempo […]

Margot Fassler writes in Music in the Medieval West that “[t]he male

Music subject, ready the prompt carefully.Musical Examples: Bernart de Ventadorn Can vei la lauzeta mover Comtessa de Dia A chantar Marcabru L’autrier jost’una sebissa Guiraut de Bornelh + Raimbaut d’Aurenga Ara’m platz William IX, Duke of Aquitaine Companho, farai un vers qu’er covinen Readings: Taruskin, Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century Chapter […]

The African American Experience in the American West: Civil War and

 The African American Experience in the American West: Civil War and Reconstruction The 10-page length is minimal and does not include title page, endnotes, or bibliography. No quotes longer than 2 typed sentences are allowed. Papers need to be drawn from a minimum of six independent primary documents and six secondary sources. Primary documents can […]

Gender or Racial Dynamics in the American West

Watch any episode of AMC’s Hell on Wheels. You can access the show’s entire catalog through Netflix, rent it from any video rental store or access most of the catalog on AMC. After watching any episode write a clear and concise essay of no more than 600 words that examines the gender or racial dynamics […]

The African American Experience in the American West: Civil War and

Topics of particular interest will be gender, enslaved black labor, family relations, culture, resistance and community as well as the lives of free people of color both in the North, South and West, the abolitionist movement the Civil War, Reconstruction and the beginning of the Jim Crow era. It is important to outline the main […]