1. What is the writer trying to find out more about through their research (what research question guides his work)?
The writer is guiding his research on the question, “What is the function of music?”
2. What sort of texts or sources does the author quote from to build his argument?
The author quotes many musicians after performing.
3. In what ways do you see others around you attempting to establish their “authenticity”?
Others around me attempt to establish authenticity by trying to be different. People wear different kinds of clothes or dye their hair colors to try to stand out and be different.
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There is some interesting overlap between the attempt to be "authentic" and to be "different." Such overlap recalls the marxist school of critical theory that suggested that the media (and other institutions) control what we do and say, turning us all into clones. So, being authentic to them would mean being different than these institutions expect us to be.
ReplyDeleteThis struggle between identity and outside influences comes up again in your journal entry #9, where you write that "peers use writing styles that they may have learned or read to show self-representation." Here, your peers are representing themselves using styles taught to them by outside sources. I wonder what you think the implications are of the idea that we are taught how to represent ourselves. How do we strike a balance between learning from outside institutions and not letting these institutions control who we are?