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Postcolonial theory: blog tasks

    this W Magazine deep dive on the Yeehaw agenda   1) What are the visual cues the article lists as linked to the western genre?  Cowboy hats, cow prints, rhinestones, and fringed suede jackets . 2) How did the Yeehaw agenda come about?  In September 2018, the trend of black pop-culture figures wearing cowboy garb was dubbed the “Yeehaw Agenda” by  Bri Malandro , a Texas-based pop-culture archivist.  3) Why has it been suggested that the black cowboy has been 'erased from American culture'?  To prevent the black influence upon the cowboy aesthetic. 4) How has the black cowboy aesthetic been reflected by the fashion industry? The Compton cowboys gained over 25000 followers and started to sell merch. Pyer Moss then featured a runway with the Compton cowboys in 2018. 5) Read the section on Lil Nas X and Old Town Road. What does it suggest about race and the country music community? The erasure of the song from the country charts reveals a problem with race in the country music c

Lil Nas X - Old Town Road: Blog tasks

    this Vox feature and podcast transcript on Lil Nas X and Old Town Road . 1) What is the big debate regarding Old Town Road and genre? T he debate on whether 'Old Town Road' should be classified as country music. 2) What do you learn about the background of Lil Nas X and Old Town Road from the podcast transcript? Lil Nas X (real name : Montero Hill) is a 20 year old rapper from Atlanta who started on soundcloud.For the construction of 'Old Town Road 'h e bought a beat that had this sort of country-sounding instrumental to it. And he said he was living at home feeling very lonely, feeling like a lonely cowboy, and he decided to pair that feeling with this sort of twangy beat that he bought. 3) What is the Yeehaw agenda? The yee haw agenda : how a lot of black artists are getting interested in sort of the country aesthetic. 4) How did the story become a debate about race in America? Because black artists did not match the identity of typical artists in the cowboy genre

TV assessment learner response

  1) Type up your feedback in  full  (you don't need to write the mark and grade if you want to keep this confidential). WWW: Q1 is solid , it just needs a bit more detail , terminology and reference to the text to reach the top level. Plenty to build on here. EBI: Q2 actually starts well with good question focus but then stops. Is this a revision issue? Timing? Essay structure? Planning will certainly  help with all of this but you need to know the CSPs first. 11/34 D 2) Read  the whole mark scheme for this assessment  carefully. Identify at least  one  potential point that you missed out on for each question in the assessment (even if you got full marks for the question). 1.  Criticisms of Hollywood cinema for the lack of originality in the film industry with reliance on     franchises or sequels.      Media products that imitate the  style of another text, artist or time period. 2. • the way events, issues, individuals (including self-representation) and social groups (including