New York University African Popular Culture Paper
Question Description
DIRECTIONS:
*Attempt only two questions.
*Question # 1, Section A, is compulsory.
*Choose one more question from Section B.
*Keep your answers clear, concise and analytical.
*Address your responses to the specific demands of each question.
*Limit your answers to 4 (double-spaced, 12-pitch font) pages per question.
*Illustrate your answers with pertinent references, and cite key sources consulted.
*No haphazard submission of papers or excuses for late papers would be accepted.
*Your answer script must include the questions chosen and be submitted in PDF
QUESTIONS:
SECTION A
1) With necessary attention to their intricate strands, social and dynamic networks, discuss the importance of a composite scholarly framework for the analysis of African popular culture.
SECTION B
2) Analyze African popular music as a convergence of genres, immersed in experimentations, negotiations and transformations that crisscross histories, cultures, creativity and commerce.
3) With respect to critical debates around them, carefully explore the significance of identity, lifestyle, cultural formations and worldliness amongst the Sapeurs and Skothane (Izikothane).
4) Examine, with requisite subtleties, how contemporary African fashion, through fabrics, cultures, heritage, styles, aesthetics, and creativity, contests ideas of fashion and Africanness.
5) Identify and analyze the cultural, social, institutional, and political debates fundamental to understanding the challenges and subcultures of sexual minorities in African popular culture.
Again, you may use outside sources, where such would enhance your responses, and, crucially, there are NO specifications about how many sources MUST be cited. In brief, assigned materials and, if pertinent, any other scholarly source that supports your arguments would do.It will be graded for depth and logical flow; particularly, as they integrate assigned readings and other creditable sources. So, overall, qualify your responses, where necessary, to demonstrate finespun understandings of the issues. Good scholarship refrains from sweeping generalizations, bad grammar, and haphazard organization.You may use ALL available, authentic, scholarly, resources in writing but must, as a matter of academic integrity, acknowledge them in your bibliography. Be mindful of plagiarism, very wary of non-academic web sources and, especially, please, keep away from WIKIPEDIA as citations from it are null and void for this class. Please, ensure that your papers are scholarly, well edited, written in the MLA format, and contain full bibliographical references (when applicable). Also, please, collate your order together with the first question from SECTION A on top; that is, before any other chosen from SECTION B.
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