Global Citizens Writing Assignment - Draft

Global Citizens Assignment – Draft

NOTE: a Draft is a complete paper, it is supposed to be your best writing and will be reviewed and graded as a complete paper. Your draft will be read and reviewed with suggestions made for improvements to make in your Final Paper submission. Submissions are to made inside this Assignment

Late submissions receive a 10% per day penalty, and the assignment is only open for late submission for 3 days after the due date.

This Canvas assignment allows for resubmissions (by the due date.)  This is because you get a Similarity Report on your paper from Turnitin.  This report identifies what parts of your paper are copied materials.  There will be some percentage of copied materials in your paper, but all of these need to be accounted for, through quotations, citations or as materials that are clearly part of your reference citations, discography, etc. 

Remember to submit your Draft in time to get the Turnitin Similarity Report back before submitting your final version of the Draft for review.  The report is usually available quickly, but allow up to 24 hours for return of Similarity Report from Turnitin. The paper is automatically run through TurnitIn when you submit to the assignment, you do not have to open TurnitIn to submit.

Drafts will be reviewed and returned with comments. Look in your Grades area for the assignment and click on it to open and see your grade and comments. . 

Global Music and Jazz

Jazz Music is an original American art form that incorporates music from many different cultures.  It has become an international music, which can be heard in most countries around the world, performed by musicians from those countries as well as American musicians. This assignment is a research and writing assignment that asks you to write about a contemporary International Jazz musician/group (a musician or group that comes from a country other than the USA) or an International jazz “scene” such as a famous International jazz festival like the Umbria Jazz Festival in Italy, or the jazz scene found in an international metropolitan area such as Paris, London, Cape Town or Tokyo – writing about how Jazz has become part of the “scene” in those places – important venues: jazz clubs, concert houses, jazz societies,  and important musicians from the “scene”. This paper is to be about the current Jazz scene or artist/group, you need to document Jazz music that is going on NOW, within the last 5 years.  Your paper can discuss important background issues to support your ideas, but your subject is an International Jazz artist of scene that is currently active.

There are many interesting topics that fall under this umbrella.  Many international jazz musicians combine music from their own country or region with existing jazz musical ideas to create a new jazz sound.  Other international jazz musicians are dedicated to playing very traditional styles of jazz.  Many came to the US to study jazz music and apprentice with American jazz masters.If you choose to write about an artist/group,  you will need to find artists/groups that are living and practicing the music in an International location. Some will still perform I the US, (and around the world) while basing their careers outside the US, often in their home countries or regions. 

It is important that the topic you choose has enough information about the international aspects of the musician/group or jazz scene to support a research paper.  The assignment is about a “contemporary” artist or scene – meaning that the artists or scene is currently active, with the paper including recent activity – recordings, concerts, etc..  Historical background is important, but the focus of the paper is about an artist/jazz scene going on right now. 

For instance, if you write about the jazz scene in Paris, you need to mention the history of Jazz in Paris (this is very important to this topic) and then write about the scene today, where the musicians are playing Jazz in Paris, who they are and how Jazz is integrated into modern Parisian society.