Critical thinking on music and pop

In this essay you must put the musical practices you write about in the context of the history and the issues that we have covered in this course. Those issues include appropriation, politics of identity (race, class, gender, age, etc.), globalization, and technology. Therefore, a significant portion of your research will be the course readings, lectures, and sections. You must reference substantially (at least 5 sources) and cite at least one source from the course reading. You must also include three outside sources from an academic journal (start with jstor or projectmuse) or a book from the Music Library. I also encourage you to use additional online media such as YouTube, Rolling Stone, and any other sources of popular culture you can think of – these can be part of the additional one source needed as well as citing information presented in lectures and discussion sections if you find it pertinent to your paper. You should cite a total of at least five sources. You must include a References Cited list (bibliography) at the end of your essay.