Students must write a 1500-word analytical essay placing a significant artist and musical work in historical context by discussing the aesthetic, social, cultural, economic, and political dimensions that informed its production and significance. The paper should consider both the specific historical moment of the work as well as broader historical trends, and examine how the artist's choices can be understood historically. It should also engage with themes of the course such as the maintenance of African values in diaspora, the impact of racial constructs on American music, sacred and secular interplay, and struggles for civil rights and justice.

1. deadline：5.6.2019 before 11pm（US）
course name: Music Africa Diasp U.S. : Topic
pages needed: 1500 words
Requirement：
Papers should aim for a length of 1500 words.
As described in the syllabus, the guidelines are as follows:
Students will compose an analytical essay placing a significant
artist and a particular work (i.e., a recording or performance)
into historical context, including a discussion of the aesthetic,
social, cultural, economic, and political dimensions that
informed its production and its resonance.
The paper should consider both synchronicand
diachronichistorical perspectives, situating the work in its
particular historical moment as well as showing how it speaks
to broader trends of tradition, innovation, and influence.
Connecting specific musical features to historical forces, your
essay will examine the ways that artists' aesthetic choices can
be understood historically.
Your paper should also aim to contribute to our ongoing
discussion of the course's core concerns and themes, including
but not limited to: the maintenance and transformation of
African core conceptual / aesthetic priorities and values, the
impact of the “color line” on American music (and vice versa),
the strategic embrace or militant refusal of the “mask” of
minstrelsy, the jook continuum, sacred and secular interplay,
migration and regionalism, Afro-modernism and Black Arts

2. movements, “racial uplift” and assimilationist efforts,
interracial exchanges and coalitions, appropriation and
exploitation, integrationist and anti-racist movements, black
nationalism and self-determination, the long struggle for Civil
Rights and economic justice.
The attachment is some assignments about the final paper