How have films incorporated pop songs (or other pre-existing music) for effects that go beyond the functions of traditional “inaudible” underscoring?

Describe at least three different ways popular songs and other pre-existing music have been used to create new meanings in films (vs. traditional “inaudible/invisible” underscoring). In the support of your response, describe how music is used in at least three specific scenes from different films that we have discussed in class since Midterm 2.

In your essay incorporate at least 5 of the terms/ideas below (forms of the word are fine). Please underline or bold these terms when you use them in your essay. Your use of the terms should demonstrate that you understand what the term means and how it is applied in specific filmic contexts. (Be explicit! Don’t assume I know what you mean when you use the term.) Good essays will demonstrate a breadth of knowledge about course content (i.e., don’t just choose 5 closely related ideas).

• acousmatic
• “Aesthetic of the self”
• Anti-mainstream
• Avant-gardism
• Bollywood
• Compilation soundtrack (or compilation score)
• Deterritorialization
• Exoticism (or Orientalism)
• Globalization
• Indie (or independent) film
• Intertextuality
• Localization
• Mediation (and/or “mediated selves”)
• Metadiegetic
• Minimalism
• MTV (influence on film music)
• “New Auteurs”
• Non-period music
• Postmodernism
• Rap aesthetic
• Song picturization
• Startle effects
• Stylized diegetic
• World music

I’m working on a writing question and need a sample draft to help me learn.

“The Devil Goes to Day Care” describes the moral panic that happened in the 1980s following an accusation of ritual satanic abuse at a day care.  The author states that the tension between the family sphere and the market economy made the local day care center a target of conflict, which boiled over after Judy Johnson accused Raymond Buckey of abusing her son. You are going to identify another case of moral panic and consider how people learned of it and how people promoted it.  How did that moral panic differ from the Satanic panic of the 1980s?  How was media different?  Was it pure propaganda? Would more ethos and logos in contemporary journalism have stopped the panic? Were economic conditions and social tensions similar?  Were other conditions significant? 

You will use “The Devil Goes to Day Care” as your main text, and at least two sources from the Academic Database/EBSCO Host as references.  These may be academic journals, newspapers, or magazines, but no blogs or websites besides EBSCOHost.   

Twentieth Century and Modernism; Harlem Renaissance

Read the following, using the links provided here or in the weekly module in Canvas:

• Read W.E.B. DuBois, from The Souls of Black Folk: “Of Our Spiritual Strivings”

Langston Hughes: The Harlem Renaissance and Modernism

Read poems “Harlem,” “Let America be America Again,” “Mother to Son,” “The Weary Blues,” and “I, Too, Sing America”

1. Read T. S. Eliot “The Love-Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

DQ 9. Create your initial post on the DQ 9 Discussion Board in response to the following:

• In The Souls of Black Folk, in 1903, DuBois predicted that the problem of the 20th century would be the divisions between the races, “the color line.” Choose one of Hughes’s poems: decades later, what does Hughes’s speaker have to say about progress and “the color line”? 
• DQ 10. Create your initial post on the DQ 10 Discussion Board in response to the following:

What does Eliot seem to be suggesting about J. Alfred Prufrock, if this poem is supposed to be his “love song”? What are his chances for success and happiness in love, based on what you have seen in the text?

Introduction:

In Chapter 10 of Social Studies: All Day, Everyday in the Early Childhood Classroom, you read and learned about Bringing It to Life. Below are a few questions that you will discuss as a group.  Answer the questions in your own post, then reply to two peers whose answers differ from yours.  Provide feedback to their answers (did you agree or not agree, and explain why – offer ideas, suggestions, etc.).  One question must be answered and discussed in length to receive full credit.

Prompt:

Choose one of the following questions to answer for your Discussion Board Post.  Reply to 2 peers whose question choice is different than yours.

1. How can the art of storytelling inform young students about other cultures?

2. How can cooking activities help young children to develop a sense of time with young children?

3. How are the people in history represented through their art?

4. How do events in history affect the individual development and identity of the child?  How can the Early Childhood teacher help the child discover this connection?

5. How can Early Childhood teachers use international music and dance to address social studies standards?

Choose a topic from the textbook that you have learned this semester that you have applied in your major. The essay/project should be around 1-2 pages typed. Maximum available score is 100 points. Break down given below. The completed project is due by midnight 4/24. The outline/draft (just the topic and its applications-no details necessary) is due by midnight 4/17. There will be a submission box on canvas in week 14 for the draft. If it is approved, I will put a 1, if not a 0. Once it is approved, you can start working on the remainder of your project. Note that this project is 10% of your overall grade. Only word or pdf files can be uploaded.

• Submit a draft/outline of your project (10points). Note that this is due 4/17
• Explain the mathematical process (how the calculations are done) of the topic you have chosen (30pts)
• Describe using an example how you applied this topic in your major (50pts)
• What further applications do you expect to see for this topic in the courses you need to take in the future? (10 points)

My major is IT