State your research topic, consisting in a musical case study

Your paper will be a 1500-word research paper in which you give in-depth analysis of a specific world music event or object not discussed in the course. In this paper you will combine library research with your own ethnographic observation and interpretation of your chosen musical case study. You will need a minimum of 3 academic sources (books from academic presses and peer-review journal articles) to provide historical and cultural information that will serve as background for your original analysis. You will relate a course concept (such as soundscapes, heritage, appropriation, commodification, etc.) to your case study and frame your discussion around this chosen concept. The ethnographic aspect of the paper will come from your own close reading of the performance, close listening to the sonic content, and careful attention to musical, contextual and performance practice details.