Music Choices Essay
Childish Gambino “This is America”
Chance the Rapper- Acid Rain
Song 1: Kanye West, Through the Wire (2004)
Biggie Smalls, Juicy
in other words, artists who, despite being from previous generations, have enjoyed a large following on social media, long beyond their days in the spotlight. Find the chosen songs on a music server like Spotify (or Pandora, or LastFM, Apple Music, Amazon Music, etc.) then check who “shows up” as suggestions/recommendations on your music device, after you listen to that choice. (You may also see who shows up on the Pandora radio station, or YouTube playlist.)
If you follow the directions above, you will have chosen from 3-5 recordings … with at least two of them being songs from our course listening lists, and at least one being from another recent artist or artists of your own choosing, who a music service “connected” to your first choices.
Then, describe each of these songs analytically and comparatively. Choose a focus such as the musical interpretation of lyrics, arrangement or accompaniment style, improvisation, rhythm, or melodic form. Make sure you describe at least one detail in each song, and preferably two. The connection between the songs is usually obvious. But how are the different? Do the differences reflect different value systems discussed in one of the readings? A different relationship to the material conditions of history?
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