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Author Spotlight and Annotated Bibliography

The field of Community Music is growing rapidly with a number of prolific writers and researchers who have dedicated much of their time to exploring and carving new knowledge pathways in this area. Through this project, you will become “the expert” on one community music author of your choosing. To do this, you will:

1. Browse and explore titles of contributions and corresponding authors in The International Journal of Community Music and the Oxford Handbook of Community Music (links provided under project resources below) where, generally speaking, the most current and active researchers in the field of Community Music are published.

2. Choose a theme we have explored and that appeals, and write a short paragraph that explains why it is of interest to you (100 words max). You can draw from your own experiences and reflective work in additional to any academic writings, classroom observations/activities, etc. Seek out and identify/name an author who is writing in this area. The author should be a demonstrated prolific researcher in the field of Community Music (I.e.: they have contributed a minimum of 10 articles/chapters/books/etc related specifically to community music).

3. Generate a complete list of your author’s collective works related specifically to community music. List them chronologically using a consistent reference style of your choice (e.g.: APA; Chicago; MLA, etc). You should notice that while your author will have been published in one or more of the resources listed under #1, they will also have been published in a number of other journals, books and/or edited volumes. Many authors have their own websites so you may find their works listed there.

4. From the list of collective works, choose five (5) articles/chapters/books/etc (these must be different from course readings), and write an annotated bibliography for each (150 words max per annotation). Use the annotated bibliography guidelines provided under project resources below and draw upon the practice you’ve had identifying and writing concise salient themes and topics from in-class readings.

5. Learn as much about the professional/academic life and career of your chosen author (e.g. where are they from? where/what did they study? where have/do they work? what is their professional title? what are their major accomplishments? what do they write about? who have they collaborated with? etc). Write a short overview of your findings with a brief summary of the general themes and/or focus of the author’s research portfolio and output to date that you discovered as you explored their work (300 words max).

Use 12-point font; Times New Roman font; double spaced.

Report Checklist:

___ Page 1 – Project cover page (title, name, student number, date)

___ Page 2 – Topic of interest and why

___ Pages 3-4 – Author’s name and Complete list of collective works

___ Pages 4-8 – Five (5) annotated bibliographies

___ Page 9-10 – Author profile and research portfolio themes

Project Resources

International Journal of Community Music

http://go.utlib.ca/cat/10489040

Oxford Handbook of Community Music

http://go.utlib.ca/cat/11623530