Blog Post #1
Due: Wednesday, September 29 by Midnight

Please pick a musical that means something to you, and discuss your relationship with it. If you don’t have any relationship to musicals at all, try to find a song, dance, scene or character that originally came from a musical and focus on that instead.

Please write about the ways older performance genres influence modern entertainment. What do you recognize as remnants from minstrelsy, burlesque, or melodrama in contemporary entertainment forms?

Your essay should be three to five pages in length (or 700-1300 words, give or take), and entirely in your own voice. It doesn’t need to be formal (in other words, you do not need to include things like citations and a bibliography), but if you take information from sources, they all have to be properly cited. Your posts must be checked for spelling, grammar, usage, etc.

Plagiarism will not be tolerated; if I discover that you’ve lifted prose from any other source without citing it properly, you will receive a zero for this assignment and will be reported to the dean. Put everything into your own words, refer to any written materials you draw from, and make sure your writing is always your own.

This is a wide-open assignment for a reason: I’d like to get a sense of your relationship to popular music, as well as the ways you express yourself as a writer. As long as your essay is appropriate for the public setting a blog inevitably is, and as long as your topic is related in some way or another to the course material, please write freely and well!

To post your blog entry: on the blog homepage, click the plus sign (+) at the top of the page. Once you do, look to the right of the screen and, under “Categories,” click “Blog Post #1” to direct your essay to the right place. You may type directly into the blog or cut and paste from a word document.

Confused? Concerned? Talk to me!

Best,
Professor Wollman

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