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 posted on August 16
Big Mama Thornton Crew |
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Our project focus is on the Black musical history of the women’s rights movement in the 20th to 21st century. We seek to examine how black women in music advanced the social status of women through their art. We are creating a magazine that takes readers through the 20th and 21st centuries of women’s rights and struggles as told through Black popular music. The magazine will have written pieces detailing specific time periods and important female figures in Black popular music and will include playlists as an auditory guide through the zine. Our analysis covers a range of genres and periods, covering how black women in music have not only reflected social changes but catalyzed them. 
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posted on August 16
Aretha Franklin Crew |
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For this project, we intended to create a video that illustrated the healing power of Black music and how it has the ability to bring communities together. We conducted research on the African drums, analyzed lyrical and live performances of popular songs, investigated the science behind music therapy, and created our own group praise poetry. 
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Ella Fitzgerald Crew |
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Ella Fitzgerald is often referred to as the “Queen of Jazz”, so our intent was to create an article that showcases why she holds this title and to learn more about who she was as a person, how jazz influenced her life, and how the music she created influenced others. 
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Etta James Crew |
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Our group created a podcast episode that highlights various aspects of Black Women in the music industry. Our goal is to provide a platform to otherwise lesser known Black Female artists in order to give them the recognition they deserve for their immense impact on American music and culture, whilst shedding some light on some of their challenges/triumphs and highlighting the work done by women historically. 
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Cassandra Wilson Crew |
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We will be honing in on the timeline of inequality through these subtopics: Gun control, Racial Inequality, and Women’s Rights. We want to highlight music that voices these social issues, and we think these topics would be good segways to open dialogue. We crafted a radio show episode (audio only) divided into different subtopics, aided by music relevant to the topics. 
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Eartha Kitt Crew |
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Our project explores how Black American Musicians have used music as an expressive tool to amplify their voices. Different music genres and time periods, modern trends and individual Artist spotlight and contributions are major themes within our digital zine, which bears relevance of how music addresses social change advocacy for social change and personal identities. 
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Roberta Flack Crew |
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For our multimodal group project we will be discussing the women of Black Popular Music and how they have, and continue to, use their sexuality for their independence. We will also include the use of sampling and how it has furthered female independence within music. 
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Mary Lou Williams Crew |
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Our focus for this project was a storymap. Our goal was to take the reader on a journey to various locations that are historically significant to five genres of black music: jazz, R&B, reggae, hip-hop, and blues. 
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Lauryn Hill Crew |
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We chose to curate an Instagram page to act as a platform to share news but also illustrate detailed analysis on the performances, both on stage and day-to-day, of famous Black artists, and how they defy the status quo. 
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