500 words. These responses will be graded as excellent (5)/good (4)/proficient (3)/incomplete (0). They will be considered incomplete if they are not completed in time or show no engagement with the material for the week.
Note that for each of these topics, you are not being asking to summarize the material in question, but to analyze it. This means you describe an aspect of the song or reading only in service of saying something about it or how it works, not just that it happens. Imagine if, for each observation you might make, I asked you, “So what?” Answering that question can help you move beyond summarization and toward analysis.
Question: The following are two different recordings of a song called “Jolene” written (and performed) by Dolly Parton. Listen to both and compare them. You could talk about instrumentation, loudness and heaviness, slowness and fastness, vocal timbre, ornamentation, etc. How does this pair relate to and/or complicate our notion of “authenticity” discussed this week?
“Jolene” text
link:https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/dollyparton/jolene141885.html
Version 1: Performed by Dolly Parton spotify youtube
link: https://open.spotify.com/track/2SpEHTbUuebeLkgs9QB7Ue?si=dOemhXvQSpukRGGAejdiHg
Version 2: Performed by the White Stripes spotify youtube
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