Genre History Research Paper Homework Help

EN 282 Guidelines for genre analysis

Consider how we’ve looked at media issues and the evolution of genres in this course. There are literally hundreds of possible topics you might write on here. Also, the incorporation of additional media into this

essay is encouraged IF you can explain to me at your conference how/why it will benefit the reader, help him/her gain a greater understanding of your topic, or provide tangible examples of the ideas you’re

discussing.
Add music sample/examples? This must be a minimum of 1,000 words (not counting citation/documentation). Remember everything about formatting, spacing, etc.

ALSO: You must use/cite/document at least one scholarly source* for this essay. There is extra credit available if you complete the library research assignment in the course of researching your topic.

As before, though, you must accurately cite/document your sources using MLA guidelines (remember, there’s an MLA guide on the Purdue OWL site linked to Moodle).

I expect your voice/tone/point of view here to be relatively objective; that is, I’m not going to penalize you for "stepping out" of third-person perspective, but I also don’t want to see

cutting/sarcastic comments, overtly opinionated statements, or embarking on thinly-related tangents. Stick to the topic at hand and work within that. Within that, though, feel free to speculate, make suggestions,

or informally comment on how a certain work/author/artist/filmmaker/etc. reflects some aspect of your argument.

Introduction: In your first paragraph, make sure you state the intent of your essay; that is, introduce the genre you are analyzing, and state your ideas on how you can demonstrate its development/evolution

through certain works/media (and/or analyzing what historical events or forces have shaped it).

Body/discussion paragraphs will then "roll out" your examples and explain their importance to the genre or to the issue at hand, and why they are relevant to the other examples you’ll cite/use. This

is also where you can embed/include other media to serve as examples or to better highlight your examples (film clips, photos, images 90s ravers and now, etc.).

Conclusion: You must bring the essay to a close by reminding the reader of your argument and perhaps suggest some other works that also fit the genre or other events/works that are central in studying a

medium, but that you didn’t get to in your essay. Basically, state what else is important to understand about your topic that you didn’t discuss in the body paragraphs. You might even consider saving a certain

example for the conclusion. <<such as?

*A "scholarly source" is one that is specialized and pointed and written by an academic or expert in that field. Books and journal articles from peer-reviewed publications are the most common

scholarly sources, but if you have a source whose qualities are vague to you in this regard, or you want to make your case for a non-academic/scholarly source in your essay, please contact me

What I have so far:

Natalie Constable
9 April 2014
Christopher Nank
Literature and Media Studies
Bibliography and Abstract
Abstract:
The overall main idea for this essay is the explanation of the Electronic Dance Music (EDM) genre as a whole, and how it came to be the phenomenon that it is today. To understand EDM, it is important to

know about its roots, as well as the multiple sub-genres that evolved over time. Each sub-genre spawned new variations, which are all considered to be part of the larger EDM umbrella. The goal here is to

breakdown a big section of music into smaller parts that can be classified into four groups: house, techno, drum and bass, and trance. However, there is much debate and speculation on which songs fit into

each of these subgenres, causing new genres to be created to suit these. Also included will be the culture surrounding EDM, including styles of dress, beliefs, and drug use, all of which are part of the ‘rave’

scene that accompanies this music.

Sources to be Cited:
Hutson, Scott R. "Technoshamanism: Spiritual Healing in the Rave Subculture."
Popular Music and Society 23.3 (1999): 53-77. ProQuest. Web. 5 Apr.
2014.
This essay explains briefly the subgenres of EDM, as well as the history of raves and rave culture in the 80s and 90s. The author also goes on to argue that the ‘DJ’ is like a shaman who guides the audience

through a spiritual experience. This source will be used to demonstrate the antics of rave-goers and EDM listeners, but not as a whole: it is important to recognize that there are many people who would

disagree with such an interpretation of the DJ as a shaman.

Pluto, Mars. Internet Chat Interview. 05 Apr 2014.
Mars Pluto is an EDM producer who has been making music for nine years now. He has played with well-known artists such as Bingo Players, Bassjackers, MakJ, Candyland, Koan Sound, Gemini, and

Sound Remedy. He has more than 70 thousand plays on his SoundCloud music site, and is featured on blogs such as Real Trap and Dance Your Face Off. We went to high school together and he is generously

allowing me to interview him for this essay, to better explain the subgenres of EDM.

Saulsky, Will. 16 Jan 2013. Vice Magazine, Online Posting to Explaining Rave
Culture to Americans. Web. 5 Apr. 2014.<http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read
/rave-culture-a-handy-guide-for-middle-america>.
This article and its comments will be used to discuss the on-going debate between ravers about the culture itself. The genre of EDM encompasses a belief that is largely about ‘Peace, Love, Unity, and

Respect’ or PLUR between all people, but in reality, there is a lot of hate here. The article is written by a British author (Clive Martin), discriminating against America’s interpretation of the ‘rave scene.’ Below

is the insightful comment by Will, a well-reasoned argument.
“mixed feelings on this. I agree with a great deal but guess what? EDM is the most logical term to describe the broad collective of genres that pertain to this scene and if you think that makes us sound like

novices then that’s your own problem and you should know you look completely idiotic for complaining about such an insignificant aspect of this scene. You make some solid points, especially regarding the

more inexperienced fans in the USA who are all about "popping a molly" and making fools of themselves, but a large part of this article also shows that you’re unwilling to accept that this music (I’ll

refrain from calling it EDM to satisfy your elitist agenda) and this scene has evolved and changed dramatically. Quit making up rules for something that doesn’t need any and trying to make yourself appear to be

superior by posting condescending, opinionated, generalizing criticisms of people you pretend to know everything about”

TRAP, EDM. Electronic Music Genres & subgenres (2014) ¤ ??. 2013. Video.
YouTubeWeb. 9 Apr 2014.
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eR4C25Et7w>.
Cibulka, Matthew. Electronic Music: A Small Introduction. 2013. Video. YouTubeWeb.
9 Apr 2014. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUwv5b3Vdh0>.
Both of these YouTube videos can be used to exhibit examples of the sub-genres of Electronic Dance Music. They include sound samples, as well as the name of the artist and sub-genre that is playing.

Definitions of terms:
Rave
Dictionary.com: “a professionally organized party for young people, with electronic dance music, sometimes held in a field or disused building”
Vocabulary.com: “a dance party that lasts all night and electronically synthesized music is played”
Urbandictionary.com: “An underground party in which electronic music is played, dancing occurs in a very free-form fashion. The dress of the partygoers is quite unrestrained. It is rumored that there is

ALWAYS drug use involved, but this is not ALWAYS correct. There are straight-edge ravers who don’t take part in drug use. Like me.”

THANK YOU!! It was due today and I have ADHD so I didn’t do it and now I’m panicking… I’m a pretty good writer but research papers make me choke.