UCLA African Popular Culture Midterm Exam Response Essay Follow the pictures I posted, please using simple words and simple grammar. Choose one question from section B. BL ST. 165: AFRICAN POPULAR CULTURE
MIDTERM EXAM, FALL QUARTER, 2019.
Due: In class, on Tuesday, November 05, 2019.
Time: 8:00am prompt (without exception)
Instructor: Dr. Jude G. Akudinobi
DIRECTIONS:
*Attempt only two questions.
*Question #1, Section A, is compulsory.
*Choose one more question from Section B.
* Keep your answers clear, concise and analytical.
* Address your responses to the specific demands of each question.
*Limit your answers to 4 (double-spaced, 12-pitch font) pages per question.
*Illustrate your answers with pertinent references, and cite key sources consulted.
*No electronic submission of papers or excuses for late papers would be accepted.
*Your answer scripts must include the questions chosen, your name, and be stapled.
QUESTIONS:
SECTION A
1) With requisite attention to their intricate strands, social and dynamic networks, discuss the
importance of a composite scholarly framework for the analysis of African popular culture.
SECTION B
2) Analyze African popular music as a convergence of genres, anchored in experimentations,
negotiations and transformations that crisscross histories, cultures, creativity and commerce.
3) With respect to ongoing debates around them, discuss, critically, the centrality of identity,
lifestyle, cultural formations and worldliness among the Sapeurs and Skothane (Izikothane).
4) Examine, with requisite subtleties, how contemporary African fashion, through fabrics,
heritage, styles, aesthetics, and new media, contests generic notions of fashion and Africanness’.
5) Identify and analyze the cultural, social, institutional, and political debates fundamental to
understanding the challenges and subcultures of sexual minorities in African popular culture.
GOOD LUCK!
EXAM GRADING CRITERIA
COLORS
MAMASI TOM
‘A’ GRADE RANGE = 90%-100%
* Answered all aspects of the questions.
* Cogent application of lectures and readings.IOS 30 diabeet
* Cited other relevant materials appropriately.
* Identified characters, directors and situations aptly.
* Clear, engaging and scholarly analyses.
* Avoided pointless summaries of films.
* Hardly any spelling or grammatical errors.
* No colloquialisms (slangs and informal language).
* Kept responses within specified page limits.
* No attempts to ‘stretch’ paper, unduly (through creative pagination, font sizes, etc)
‘B’ GRADE RANGE = 80%-89%
* Answered most aspects of the questions.
* Mediocre applications of lectures and readings.
* Cited other relevant materials unevenly.
* Identified characters, directors and situations aptly.
* Fairly clear, engaging and scholarly analyses.
* Had some pointless summaries of films.
* Occasional spelling and grammatical errors.
* Few, if any, colloquialisms (slangs and informal language).
* Kept responses within specified page limits.
* Probable attempts to ‘stretch’ paper, unduly (through creative pagination, font sizes, etc).
‘C’ GRADE RANGE = 70%-79%
* Answered some aspects of the questions.
* Scant application of lectures and readings.
* Trivial use, if any, of other relevant materials.
* Misidentification of characters, directors and situations.
* Lacked clear, engaging and scholarly analyses.
* Indulgent and artless summaries of films.
* Plentiful spelling and grammatical errors.
* Rife with colloquialisms (slangs and informal language).
* Resourceless use of specified page limits.
* Flagrant attempts to ‘stretch’ paper, (through creative pagination, font sizes, etc)
‘D’ GRADE = 60%-69%
*Gross deficiencies, in range and scope, of a ‘C’ paper.
‘F’ GRADE = 59% and below
* Overwhelming attributes, in range and scope, of a ‘D’
paper.
NOTE: For finer differentiations, a plus (+) or minus (-) will be applied to passing grades, only.
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