How The Audience Can Influence The Type Of Performed Music
Samantha Assignment #2: Looking at the exemplars explored in this unit, explain how the intended audience of a musical event can influence the type of music that's performed there, and vice-versa. Length: 500-1000 words.
The exemplars are
Gospel
Early music as ethnography
HIP (historically-informed performance)
First Nations musicking.
You consider all of these exemplars, and even any that you know from your personal experience, to discuss how audience informs musical events.
Writing Assignment Rubric
A successful paper will:
--Describe the defining physical and/or social and/or political qualities of each of the settings or audiences or rituals or musical works explored in the module units.
--Analyze four or more musical examples to highlight how various elements of each example has been influenced by the physical and/or social and/or political setting/audience/ritual/musical work tradition to which it belongs.
--Make connections between the different settings/audience/ritual/musical work tradition explored in this module, by comparing and/or contrasting the overarching ways in which they've influenced a specific genre of music.