You are required to listen to African American popular music performed by African American artists and record information about this music in a Listening Journal. The Journal should be divided into two sections. The first must cover music up to and including 1969 and the second music between 1970 and 1990. The Journal will consist of separate entries for each song you listen to. In these entries, you should write down your personal feeling about each song. There must be no duplicates entries [i.e., same song by the same artist] as these entries will result in mark deductions. There must be a table of content and the pages and songs must be numbered. The journal should explore a minimum of 150 songs and be at least 30 pages long. Entries should list factual data about each song, which may include, but is not limited to artist name, song name, composer, release date, record label and chart peak position. Plagiarism, especially cut/paste from the Internet, will result in deductions of up to 100%. The journal should not contain songs listed on the exclusion list located on the course website. This assignment is based on detailed music entries. It consists of 150 songs from 1920-1990, please complete these entries on a word or pdf file while numbering the entries. The songs that are picked are supposed to be by only African-American artists. A journal entry includes a song, artist, release date, and the record label.
