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Lecture Six Short Essay Assignment (average 350-500 words for 5%):

OPTION ONE - Create lecture material of your own, selecting/introducing a traditional musical culture that is new and unfamiliar to you, containing a brief description of:

1) one youtube link of a traditional performance genre, 2) one youtube link of a certain artist representing (and perhaps innovating off) the tradition, 3) one link containing research background on the musical cultural tradition selected, and 4) one link on the background of the artist selected.

Your chosen tradition may be from any one of the geo-cultural areas covered in class, or another world area note yet covered. Most importantly, the genre and artist chosen should not have been covered in any of the class lecture material.

OPTION TWO - Read the pdf article by Modirzadeh (2009, Leonardo Journal), and review select portions accompanied by your own thoughts and opinions.

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In his article, Jared Diamond does not agree with the agricultural transitioning from small
nomadic bands of hunters and gatherers to large scale agricultural settlements and early
civilization. His logic argues that agricultural discoveries that led to the agricultural revolution
are a catastrophe that human beings are yet to recover. Citing progressivity view, Jared claims
that no one can prove how the lives of people have improved for the last ten decades when
hunting and gathering were abandoned. To support his claims, he cites the recent archaeologists
who resorted to indirect tests and came up with results that did not support the progressivist
view. The cited archeologist test sought to find out whether twentieth-century hunters and
gatherers are wors...


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