research paper topic
Caroline Wright ([email protected])
Sun, 13 Sep 1998 14:42:24 PDT
Okay, so I'm taking this class called Irish America (I'm not of Irish
descendcy like most of my classmates, but I've always had a thing for
the country --I mean, not only do I love U2, but then there's Guiness,
and I've always been greatly attracted to redheads (sorry to be
stereotypical there)). Anyway, so I have to write a research paper --not
much, only 12 pages including bibliography and footnotes and a bare
minimun of 3 sources-- on any topic of my choosing dealing with Irish
America. So now, all my roommates (who are tired of the cds, and videos,
and posters, but love me anyhow) are suggesting that the topic should
naturally be of some U2 relation. Which is where WIRE comes in.
The only thoughts I've had thus far are stemming from an interview
where the person being interviewed (I think it could possibly have been
Bono, but it also could have been the Pope for all I remember) made a
remark that blues music (an american music style which I also have a
fairly extensive knowledge of thanks to my dad) is not based on the
African slave songs and hymns, but many of the rhythyms and indeed the
traditional blues instrument, the guitar, comes from Irish music in that
many of the slave masters on the plantations were in fact, Irish. And
that might possibly go into how the Irish immigrants lended their
influence into other very traditionally American styles in music and art
and whatever else would fit in.
Okay, so now y'all have my thought on the matter and I would greatly
appreciate if anybody could either expand upon my ideas or express their
own thoughts on an appropriate topic.
thanks,
caroline
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