Write a Critical Essay. It will require you to synthesize multiple sources to show how different stakeholders discuss and provide evidence for their viewpoints on a highly debated, music-related topic. You will need to think about each stakeholder’s reasons and assumptions in the debate and contextualize these assumptions within a broader context.

1. a 1,000 to 1,250-word critical essay

2. a 3-4 minute podcast a 500-word podcast script.

Directions: Write a critical essay in which you synthesize the arguments of the key stakeholders involved in a music-related debate and stake your own position. In addition to your critical essay, create a 3-4 page podcast that features a condensed version of your critical essay for an audience of avid music listeners.

Your task is 1) to evaluate the arguments made by, or on behalf of, the major stakeholders in a music-related debate

2) to stake your own position in the debate, providing support for your own argument.Your essay should include the following:Stakeholders: Who are the major stakeholders in the music-related debate or controversy you chose to write about? Keep in mind the stakeholders may not be the ones making an argument.

Your essay should include the following:

Stakeholders: Who are the major stakeholders in the music-related debate or controversy you chose to write about? Keep in mind the stakeholders may not be the ones making an argument.

Research: Your essay should include at least eight sources. You may use books, websites, articles and editorials from newspapers and magazines, academic journal articles, and even social media posts, provided they are created by a major stakeholder in the music-related issue you have chosen to analyze. You should cite your sources according to MLA guidelines and include a works cited page.

Thesis: Although you will be analyzing other peoples’ arguments, you will still want to organize your essay around a central thesis, or argument. In particular, you want to avoid stitching together summaries of the different arguments made by stakeholders in a debate without making important connections between them. As you analyze the arguments made by the various stakeholders, you should construct your own argument, indicating points of agreement or disagreement with the various stakeholders. Does a pattern or theme emerge as you view the different arguments? How do the various holders respond to each others’ arguments? Finally, what are the warrants for your own claim in this music-related debate?MLA Formatting: Your essay will be submitted in MLA format.

Podcast In addition to writing a critical essay, you will also create a 3-4 minutes Podcast along with a 500-word script.

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Topic (what is the music-related controversy you propose to write about?): How N.W.A’s ‘Fuck tha Police’ Became the ‘Perfect Protest Song’

Link to article/website with information about topic: RollingStone (Links to an external site.)

Stakeholders (Who are the interested parties in this controversy?): The stakeholders are African Americans, Police, and people take seriously about overforce

Arguments (What are the arguments of the various stakeholders?): African Americans, used the song as their anger to the police.

Working thesis (What is your argument at this developmental stage of your draft?): The song itself is not just a single soundtrack. It has reality messages to deliver.