produce a minimum 6 page research paper on a popular culture phenomenon of your choosing. Your paper must be a critical analysis of your chosen topic, based in the appropriate theory and methodology, with summary and description kept to a bare minimum.
Your research should be supported with a minimum of 3 scholarly sources (only one of which can be an assigned course reading) and 2 popular or primary sources. Chose a subject that you will be excited about, maybe something that you are fairly familiar withyet would like to know more about. For example, you might write a paper titled, “FromUnderground to Aboveground: Nirvana and the Co-optation of Subculture.” Or “Deconstructing Bodies: The Female Midriff.” Or “Can the Rich Authentically Sing for the Poor: Borrowed Social Capital in Springsteen’s The Ghost of Tom Joad.” Or…
