After having read your essay I checked your proposal and your sources analyses in order to have an overall experience of what you would like to research and why.
The purpose of your proposal is slightly different from the purpose of your first draft. In your proposal, you mentioned that you wanted to explore "how music and language coincide with one another [and] how music was and is used as a tool to communicate social issues and social changes." You also wanted to “show how music has been used as a form of language in worship, was, education medical etc.” In your first draft, you explained the purpose of African American music and described how and why this purpose changed throughout the centuries.
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The idea that hidden messages and secret codes were send out through drum beats remind me of the Morse code and of all the hidden codes used in the past. The Colombian army for example, used a hidden Morse code in a pop song for sending information to hostages; in West Africa drums are called “talking drum” whose pitch changes depending upon what the drummer wants to communicate. Therefore, is music really offering nothing more than a moment of entertainment? How drums communicate? Are “talking drums” a form of communication used only in Africa or this form of communication is also used in other parts of the world, why and …show more content…
Music is a strong communication tool. Starting from the idea that music may be a strong communication tool it would be interesting to explore how music-viewed as a form of language-- has been transformed due to social and cultural changes. From a sociological and from a linguistic point of view, it would be interesting to explore how music, throughout the centuries, has changed its symbols and its codes. If we consider music as a form of language. Does it means that music is an essential communication tool? If music is really a necessary communication tool and not only an optional entertainment tool, thousands of doors may open before us --doors that lead us to consider the gospel and spiritual songs Negroes as a literary form. A literary form less complex than the spoken language but equally rich. Therefore, your paper, makes me wonder of what would happen if human beings use gospel music, or spiritual songs Negroes to communicate instead of the spoken
The purpose of your proposal is slightly different from the purpose of your first draft. In your proposal, you mentioned that you wanted to explore "how music and language coincide with one another [and] how music was and is used as a tool to communicate social issues and social changes." You also wanted to “show how music has been used as a form of language in worship, was, education medical etc.” In your first draft, you explained the purpose of African American music and described how and why this purpose changed throughout the centuries.
Your first draft is a useful introduction …show more content…
The idea that hidden messages and secret codes were send out through drum beats remind me of the Morse code and of all the hidden codes used in the past. The Colombian army for example, used a hidden Morse code in a pop song for sending information to hostages; in West Africa drums are called “talking drum” whose pitch changes depending upon what the drummer wants to communicate. Therefore, is music really offering nothing more than a moment of entertainment? How drums communicate? Are “talking drums” a form of communication used only in Africa or this form of communication is also used in other parts of the world, why and …show more content…
Music is a strong communication tool. Starting from the idea that music may be a strong communication tool it would be interesting to explore how music-viewed as a form of language-- has been transformed due to social and cultural changes. From a sociological and from a linguistic point of view, it would be interesting to explore how music, throughout the centuries, has changed its symbols and its codes. If we consider music as a form of language. Does it means that music is an essential communication tool? If music is really a necessary communication tool and not only an optional entertainment tool, thousands of doors may open before us --doors that lead us to consider the gospel and spiritual songs Negroes as a literary form. A literary form less complex than the spoken language but equally rich. Therefore, your paper, makes me wonder of what would happen if human beings use gospel music, or spiritual songs Negroes to communicate instead of the spoken