Assignment Aim:

To demonstrate skill in critically evaluating the role of music journalism.

Assignment Task:

What, if any, should be the boundaries of criticism in music journalism?

Use examples and argument to write an essay that reflects on this question and considers the role of the modern music writer in relation to it.

Assignment Outcomes:

Having successfully completed the module students will be able to:

  • understand the ethical issues underpinning journalism

  • present coherent and objective arguments that support personal opinion


Assessment Criteria:

Analytical Awareness and Application of Research: The way in which primary and/or secondary sources are used to answer the question

  • Evaluative use of primary and/or secondary sources

  • Analytical discussion

  • Appropriate acknowledgment of sources


 

Breadth of Research: Scope of primary and/or secondary sources

  • Use of appropriate sources, and media

  • Interviewing protocols

  • Research for a feature, news story, review


Written Style: The style of writing used for copy

  • Grammar

  • Spelling

  • Suitability of language for specific publications and demographics


Structure of Writing: The organisation of material in copy and its presentation

  • Linear argument

  • Synthesis and assimilation of concepts

  • Ability to substantiate argument

  • Fluency of prose


Page furniture

 

Any Other Information:

The essay should make use of Harvard Referencing and include correctly formatted citations and a complete bibliography. This is essential for noting any official sources that may offer guidance on the essay topic in addition to any further references (from examples from popular culture outlets through to your use of more theoretical texts).

 

You can refer these below texts.


















Core Texts:
Keeble, Richard 2009 Ethics for Journalists. Routledge

Marcus, Greil & Daphne Carr (eds), (2009) Best Music Writing, Da Capo Press

Watson, Ben, W. C. Bamberger (ed) (2010) Honesty is Explosive: Selected Music Journalism, Borgo Press

Supporting Texts:
Bourdieu, Pierre 2001 On Television. The New Press

Frith, Simon 1988 Performing Rites: On the Value of Popular Music. Harvard University Press,

Goodwin, Andrew 1992 Dancing in the Distraction Factory: Music Television and Popular Culture University of Minnesota

Hooks, Bell 2004 Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations. Routledge

Nehring, Neil 1997 Popular Music, Gender and Postmodernism: Anger Is an Energy. Sage

Washburne, Christopher J. (ed), 2004 Bad Music. Routledge

 

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