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Winter 2019
Essay Assignment
Due: March 4, 11:59 P.M. Essays are to be submitted electronically to the Brightspace
course website. To submit your essay, go to the “Assessments” tab at the top of the
page and select “Assignment” from the pop-up menu. In the interest of being
environmentally responsible, I ask that you DO NOT turn in a printed copy or your essay.
Late papers will be accepted; however, there will be a deduction of 5% per day late.
Length: 6-8 pages, or roughly 2000-2200 words.
Format: Use a 12-point font and double-spacing. DO NOT use a separate title page;
rather put your name, your B00#, and the course number and date (MUSC 2019, Winter
2019) in the upper left corner of the first page.
Sources and Citations: Use at least 5 sources for your essay, at least 3 of which are
scholarly sources (such as academic journal articles or scholarly books). Your textbook
for this course can be used as one of your sources. Wikipedia does not count as one of
your 5 sources (although it may be a useful resource for getting started). You may cite
your sources using either footnotes in the Chicago Style (also known as Turabian) format
or parenthetical citations in the APA or MLA format. Regardless of the citation format
you use, you should provide a bibliography of sources cited. Instructions for formatting
your citations are available via many websites. If you are unsure how to do proper
citations, consult with your TA or go to the Writing Centre.
NOTE: Dalhousie subscribes to several online databases for music research, which can
be accessed at: http://dal.ca.libguides.com/music/databases
Plagiarism: All students in this class are to read and understand the policies on
plagiarism and academic honesty as referenced in University policy at
http://academicintegrity.dal.ca. Ignorance of such policies is no excuse for violations.
Marking: Your essay will be marked according to Essay Grading Rubric posted on
Brightspace.
Option 1
Assignment and Guidelines: You are an anthropologist from a culture (or perhaps a
foreign planet) where there is no such thing as “popular music.” Your leaders have sent
you to Halifax to attend a live “popular music” performance and report back with an
anthropological analysis of the event. Your leaders have informed you that the best
place to observe such an event is at venues that locals refer to variously as “clubs,”
“concert halls,” “bars,” or “arenas.”
There is no such thing as a music venue or live popular music where you come from,
so approach the event as though it is the first time you’ve ever encountered such a
thing. This is an anthropological study of a wholly foreign culture and the ritual they call
a “popular music performance” or, for those in the know, a “gig,” “show,” or “concert.”
Your main objective is to ascertain what this ritual means to the participants. To do this,
you will have to assess several things, including: the kind of people attending the event;
the nature of the venue in which the event takes place; the sounds that are produced at
the event; and the behavior of the participants and how they relate to each other. How
do all of these factors contribute to the meaning of the event?
Attending live performances of popular music is important to many Canadians. Your
job is to ascertain why. What do the participants seem to get out of it, and what seems
to be the social meaning of the event? To prepare for this assignment, your leaders have
enrolled you in “MUSC 2019: The Rock and Roll Era and Beyond” at Dalhousie
University. Draw on what you have learned from this preparation in your discussion of
the event and what it means to the various participants. They have also instructed you
to do research in the field of “popular culture studies” to inform your analysis.
This is to be primarily an anthropological essay; however, you must also comment on
the actual sounds that you hear at this event, particularly those sounds that seem to
contribute most significantly to the meaning of the ritual. DO NOT write a review. Your
leaders are not interested in whether the performance was good or bad. Rather they
are interested in the social function of the event, how the participants (including the
performers and the audience) interact, what the event means to the participants, and
how those meanings are conveyed by the behaviours and sounds at the event.
Option 2
Assignment: Select a popular music artist active between 1950 and the present who is
NOT represented in the required listening for this class. Select one song by that artist
that came out after 1950 and make a case for why that artist and song should be
covered in a class called “The Rock and Roll Era and Beyond.” You may discuss more
than one song by your artist, but you should select and focus on ONE song and argue
why it should be required listening for this course. This requires that you think about
what constitutes historical significance and demonstrate that your selection has it. In
doing so it may be useful to link your song to the musical movements it is associated
with (e.g., soul, heavy metal, funk, teen pop, disco, hip-hop, etc.), and, if possible,
explain how it relates to broader social, historical, political, and/or cultural issues.
You should provide relevant background information on your selected artist;
however, this is NOT a biographical essay assignment, and your coverage of the artist’s
biography should be limited to information relevant to her/his/their historical
significance.
Be sure to discuss musical details and how they contribute to the significance and/or
impact of your chosen song. Explain how the song works and what kinds of meanings it
offers, and to whom. What musical elements are important to this particular song? How
do they contribute to the meaning and effect of the song?
Essay and Research Paper Grading Rubric
Developed by Jay Aronson (Carnegie Mellon University), modified by Steven Baur (Dalhousie University)
Overall
Impression
Argument
Evidence
Excellent
Author directly addresses main
question or issue, and adds new
insight to the subject not
provided in lectures, readings,
or class discussions. The author
makes use ideas and
information presented in class
and is able to synthesize this
knowledge and relate it to
material not covered in the
course.
Essay contains a clear
argument—i.e., lets the reader
know exactly what the author is
trying to communicate.
Good
Author competently addresses
main question or issue, but
does not add much new
insight into the subject. That
said, it is clear that the author
has learned a great deal in
class and through researcch
and is able to communicate
this knowledge to others.
An argument is present, but
reader must reconstruct it
from the text.
Needs Improvement
Author attempts to address
main question or issue, but
fails. The author has
retained some information
from the course, but does
not fully understand its
meaning or context and
cannot clearly convey it to
others.
Author attempts, but fails,
to make an argument (e.g.,
starts with a rhetorical
question/statement or
anecdote that is never put
into context).
Provides compelling and
Provides necessary evidence
Not enough evidence is
accurate evidence that
to convince reader of most
provided to support
convinces reader to accept main aspects of the main argument
author’s argument, or
argument. The importance or
but not all. The importance/
evidence is incomplete,
relevance of all evidence is
relevance of some evidence
incorrect, or
made clear. There are no gaps in presented may not be totally
oversimplified. Information
reasoning—i.e., the reader does clear. Reader must make a few from lectures and readings
not need to assume anything or mental leaps or do some
is not effectively used.
do additional research to accept additional research to fully
main argument.
accept all aspects of main
argument.
Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence, Carnegie Mellon University
Poor
Essay does NOT address
main question or issue, and it
is obvious that author has not
retained any information
from the course.
F
P
L
A
G
I
A
R
I
S
M
No attempt is made to
articulate an argument.
Either no evidence is
provided, or there are
numerous factual mistakes,
omissions or
oversimplifications. There is
little or no mention of
information from lectures
and readings.
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Sources
Note: You
should always
consult the
assignment
description to
find out what
kinds of
sources are
required.
Citations
Excellent
Evidence is used from a range
of sources, which may include
course lectures, course readings,
and independent research.
Research sources include
scholarly books, websites, or
journal articles, etc.
Good
Evidence is used from many
sources, but author relies
heavily on a more limited set
of sources. Some effort is
made to go beyond material
presented in class when
required, but not much. If
outside sources are used, they
are primarily non-scholarly
(i.e., intended for a general
audience) and/or web-based.
All evidence is properly cited
All evidence is cited, but there
using either Chigago (footnotes) are some minor problems with
or APA (parenthetical) style
completeness or format of
citation format.
some citations.
Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence, Carnegie Mellon University
Needs Improvement
Uses only a few sources.
Few or none of the sources
are scholarly publications.
Poor
Does not use sources, only
minimally uses sources
provided by instructor, or
relies exclusively on nonscholarly outside sources.
Some pieces are
unreferenced or
inaccurately referenced,
and there are problems
with completeness and
format of citations.
No attempt is made to cite
evidence.
F
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Organization
Clarity and
Style
Excellent
Essay contains an intro, main
body, and conclusion.
Introduction lays out main
argument and gives an outline
of what the reader can expect in
the essay. Each paragraph
follows logically from the
previous paragraph. The
conclusion brings everything
together, and gives the reader a
sense of what further work
might be done to advance the
subject matter described in the
paper.
All sentences are grammatically
correct and clearly written.
Sentence structure is varied.
Writing is efficient with no
padding or needless verbiage.
No words are misused or
unnecessarily fancy. Technical
terms, words from other
languages, and words from
other historical periods are
always explained. All
information is accurate and upto-date. Paper has been spellchecked AND proofread
(ideally by you and somebody
else), and contains no errors.
Good
Essay contains an intro, main
body, and conclusion. The
introduction lays out the main
argument but gives the reader
little idea of what to expect in
the essay. Not all paragraphs
follow logically from the
previous paragraph. The
conclusion nicely summarizes
the main argument and
evidence, but does not move
beyond what has already been
presented in the paper.
Needs Improvement
Essay contains an intro,
main body, and conclusion.
The introduction gives the
reader an idea of what to
expect in the paper, but
does not effectively lay out
the main argument. There
is not a logical flow from
paragraph to paragraph.
The conclusion does little
more than restate the
problematic introduction.
Intro and/or conclusion
may be too wordy or short.
All sentences are
A few sentences are
grammatically correct and
grammatically incorrect or
clearly written. An occasional not clearly written. Several
word is misused or
words are misused. Writing
unnecessarily fancy.
is inefficient with
Technical terms, words from
excessive needless
other languages, and words
verbiage. Technical terms,
from other historical periods
words from other
are usually, but not always,
languages, and words from
explained. Most information is other historical periods are
accurate and up-to-date. Paper rarely explained. Not all
has been spell-checked AND
information is accurate and
proofread, and contains no
up-to-date. Paper has been
more than a few minor errors, spell-checked AND
which do not adversely affect proofread, but still contains
the reader’s ability to
several errors. Reader’s
understand the essay.
ability to understand essay
may be compromised by
these errors.
Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence, Carnegie Mellon University
Poor
Essay has no clear
organizational pattern.
F
Paper is full of grammatical
errors and bad writing.
Several words are misused.
Technical terms, words from
other languages, and words
from other historical periods
are rarely explained. Not all
information is accurate and
up-to-date. Paper has not
been spell-checked or
proofread, and contains
numerous errors. Reader has
a difficult time understanding
essay because of errors.
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