Research Sources: Music Around ASU

My proposed topic for the second project in English 101 is the music around the Arizona State University campus. The music around the campus brings the community together to be able to converse about music, relax, and listen to the different artists on campus here. This topic interested me because I am into a variety genres of music, especially live music, it appeals to me for the atmosphere that is created when a group of people listen to an artist playing their music live for them. Music coming from speakers is another form of live music even though the artist is not playing for the crowd. The music coming from the speakers, do turn the crowd into a whole dancing and singing to the tune. The way I can evaluate this my topic for how music brings the community together to discuss with each other is by whether or not the music is soothing, if the audience is discussing with each other, and the setting where the artists performing. I am going to use sources for Project 2 and my first source will be a book called Journal of Historical Research in Music Education written by Mark Fonder, the source deals with the historical side of the music education that is taught in Arizona State University. The ideas the book has are how music has evolved and needs to be changed every year in order to be taught, they have a new edition come out every year since 1999. The source interests me how music is changing so much and even though what I consider soothing music could be something completely different a couple years from now. Thats exactly what i learned from it, how music is changing every year and the professors who teach have the choice to change the book because the publishers have a different version for every year. Another source I will be using is called One Person, One Music this source containing 345 pages written by Aaron Ziegel shows how one person when playing or making music gets so involved with the music it transforms people. This source could help me out by proving the point of becoming a different person when you are involved with the music and how other people could be captivated by it. The third source I am going to use is Classical Music Aims To Evolve, Build Audiences Without Alienating Old Guard written by Lucas Kavner containing 15 paragraphs, this article deals with how classical music is too proper and no one comes anymore because of the rules to be part of a concert. They want organizations to change it up so it is more friendly towards normal people, it shows how music is evolving for everyone around the world even if the genre is old.