Plan

Human Determination expressed through the Blues- Music a cathartic transformation of pain into art

Adapted from Soundwriting Try-It 4.7 (148–149)

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The following questions and responses will serve as a guide for writing a project plan. Answer all of them as specifically as you can. We will continue to revise specifics over the course of the project.

• Rhetorical context (See Soundwriting 138)
• What are your purposes and goals for this project (define at least 3)?
• Show how music platform is a cathartic medium for many artists
• Life experiences are often retold and can be a source of therapy
• Oppressive life experiences can result in a masterful way of retelling hard experiences
• Who is your audience?
• classmates
• What is your context?
• How oppression in the south and further in the African American culture has produced the evolution of Blues and later R&B / Rap and Hip Hop
• How do these factors play a role and what and how you will compose?
• Sound bites of classic poetry and Rap further explaining the angst
• felt and experienced by the artist to
• Genre (See Soundwriting 33–34 & 132–133)
• What genre are you composing in?
• Musical History
• What are the rhetorical strategies that composers need to use for their sound writing to be identified as a piece in that genre?
• Use Rhetorical appeals of Logos/Pathos/Ethos-using real life experiences, and show how they have transformed into art. Ultimately showing the determination of the soul to survive through some of life’s terrible struggles
• What are some of the “optional” rhetorical moves people make in the genre?
• Include memoirs
• Oral history
• Structure and organization
• What structure might you imagine for this audio project?
• Solo Radio show about music using tonight’s format of how African American culture and life has influenced music formats
• How might you organize your content?
• Start with the topic of trauma being channeled in musical content
• The process and how this can be cathartic
• Audio assets (See Soundwriting 47–49)
• What kind of audio do you need to collect?
• Poetry in the Blues format- choose 1 or 2 examples
• Song Lyrics Rap or R&B that B
• Where and how will you collect these audio assets?
• See Course Bibliography and Poetry Resources
• How and where will you organize these assets?
• Research assets
• What are your 2 secondary research essays?
• What are at least 3 other text sources you plan to use to support your claims?
• See Course Bibliography and Poetry Resources
• Deadlines (See IN FORM | Radio Show Final Project)
• What do you need to get done and by what date?
• What days and times will you devote to this project?
• Monday, Wednesday, Friday
• The Journalist’s questions (See Soundwriting 148)
• Looking at the 5 “W’s” and 1 “H” below, are there any you haven’t answered yet in your plan? If so, answer them here.
• Who will contribute to the project and support you in composing it?

I will receive feedback from classmates

• What do you need to know and gather?
• Stories of artist who expressed their pain through music or poetry
• When is it due, and when will you carve out time to do it?
• Dec 8, 2025
• Where will it be heard, and by whom?
• On the talk show
• Why is this project important?
• To further the knowledge of struggle and how it can transform into art

How will you carry out the various aspects of the plan?

I will do further research outside of the books