How do these songs engage with some of our readings? Do these artists adopt a critical stance towards an identity (sexual orientation, gender, race)? Or do these songs seek to produce an “affective” response, i.e. are they dealing with your emotions?
1) Try to select (5) of the songs to analyze much in the way we did our lyric analysis. Note the rhyme types, type of composition, quote and point to notable lyrics, and discuss the rhyming patterns. 2) After listening to the mixtape as a whole, analyze the rhetorical messages embedded throughout the entire collection […]