Musical Urbanism Final Project Instructions - Prof. Leonard Nevarez | Study Guides, Projects, Research Urbanization

Musical Urbanism Professor Heesok Chang

Fall 2008 Professor Leonard Nevarez

Final project

Deadlines

1) Proposals for final topic by October 29

2) In-class team presentations on December 3

3) Media installations due December 12

4) Individual papers (10-12 pages plus bibliography and playlist) due December 17

In teams of 2-3 students or on your own, research and document a case of musical

urbanism. Select a performer, musical movement, popular activity, urban locale, or

other social phenomenon that illustrates principles or issues of musical urbanism. By

October 29, students will post to Blackboard the teams they have formed (if any) and the

topics they have chosen for the final project. No overlap of topics will be allowed.

This assignment requires original research. In addition to consulting archival sources,

consider using ethnographic methods (e.g., interviews, fieldwork, surveys) and making

recordings (audio, digital pictures, video) to document your case with original data. Your

research must include an original map of the case, formatted however you like in order

to support your analysis; the map may stand alone as a printed supplement, or it may

serve as an interactive medium (using Google’s “My Maps,” for instance) in your in-class

presentation, media installation, or final paper.

In the last class of the seminar (December 3—a special extended session), each team will

make 20-30 minute presentations in class. The goal here is to introduce the case and

offer initial assessments of its significance under the presumption that no one has seen or

heard the subject of your project before. Reserve your definitive conclusions for the

media installations and final papers. We encourage you to incorporate music, pictures,

video, lyrics, theater/live performance, or quotations (feel free to use Powerpoint). Leave

five minutes at the end for questions and critical feedback.

By December 12, each team will have set up media installations of the final project: a

website, live performance, podcast, research poster, gallery showing, etc. The goal here

is to archive your research and present your case for a larger audience—other urban

studies students and faculty, most notably. You might choose a medium that reflects the

special features of your case: murals to display graffiti, a performance to illustrate dance,

a hard drive of electronic music, etc. We will organize an optional workshop to learn

how to make a podcast for this requirement. Additionally, with a week’s lead-time, the

Urban Studies Program will help you obtain a venue for your installation. Otherwise,

consider hosting an event in your dorm room or other student space.

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Musical Urbanism Professor Heesok Chang Fall 2008 Professor Leonard Nevarez Final project Deadlines

Proposals for final topic by October 29
In-class team presentations on December 3
Media installations due December 12
Individual papers (10-12 pages plus bibliography and playlist) due December 17 In teams of 2-3 students or on your own, research and document a case of musical urbanism. Select a performer, musical movement, popular activity, urban locale, or other social phenomenon that illustrates principles or issues of musical urbanism. By October 29, students will post to Blackboard the teams they have formed (if any) and the topics they have chosen for the final project. No overlap of topics will be allowed. This assignment requires original research. In addition to consulting archival sources, consider using ethnographic methods (e.g., interviews, fieldwork, surveys) and making recordings (audio, digital pictures, video) to document your case with original data. Your research must include an original map of the case , formatted however you like in order to support your analysis; the map may stand alone as a printed supplement, or it may serve as an interactive medium (using Google’s “My Maps,” for instance) in your in-class presentation, media installation, or final paper. In the last class of the seminar (December 3—a special extended session), each team will make 20-30 minute presentations in class. The goal here is to introduce the case and offer initial assessments of its significance under the presumption that no one has seen or heard the subject of your project before. Reserve your definitive conclusions for the media installations and final papers. We encourage you to incorporate music, pictures, video, lyrics, theater/live performance, or quotations (feel free to use Powerpoint). Leave five minutes at the end for questions and critical feedback. By December 12, each team will have set up media installations of the final project : a website, live performance, podcast, research poster, gallery showing, etc. The goal here is to archive your research and present your case for a larger audience—other urban studies students and faculty, most notably. You might choose a medium that reflects the special features of your case: murals to display graffiti, a performance to illustrate dance, a hard drive of electronic music, etc. We will organize an optional workshop to learn how to make a podcast for this requirement. Additionally, with a week’s lead-time, the Urban Studies Program will help you obtain a venue for your installation. Otherwise, consider hosting an event in your dorm room or other student space.

On December 17, the final project concludes with individual papers on your team’s case. The goal here is to provide the definitive description and analysis of your case. Set aside any transcriptions of lyrics, interviews, and other written sources you wish to discuss for an optional appendix, or leave them (along with recordings and videos) for the installations; in this paper, simply refer to those sources or reprint them here with the minimum detail needed to support your analysis. In any manner of your choosing, your paper should take up the following questions:  What social forms or ways of being in the city does your case represent?  What are the contexts in which your case arises: in music, culture industry, urban change, and social history?  How does the musical artifact itself—recordings, performance, genre, and so on —reimagine the city? For whom: particular audiences, communities, locales, etc.?  How do the case and your analysis contribute to perspectives and debates in urban studies? These questions provide many opportunities to cite readings from our seminar or your other courses. Please do so as frequently as possible so as to illustrate the grounding and relevance of your paper in the broader concerns of urban studies—the ultimate context for this seminar, after all!

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