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I was late to the padlet party last week for personal reasons, but here's mine! :)

My final, creative product will be an album. The genre will primarily be hip hop, but I think I may include a few other genres, such as pop, RnB, and lofi hip hop. To show I have done research, I could examine the concept of albums and the purposes they can serve, artistic and otherwise. As an extension of my research, I believe it will significantly benefit the project if I listen to albums within the hip hop genre; specifically those which have had impacts similar to those I wish to achieve with my music (i.e. honest social commentary, artistic expression, critical acclaim, etc). Some suitable artists that come to mind are OutKast, Kendrick Lamar and J. Cole. I can pick out and examine albums for each of these artists and analyze them, as this caliber of hip hop artist is the group I emulate and aim to “converse” with through my project. I could also examine and analyze people’s reviews and reactions to these artists’ work. There are numerous themes in hip hop! I will make a list of prospective topics and themes I would like to examine through my album and compare them with topics addressed by the aforementioned artists. These comparisons and themes will provide me with genre context, and establish a foundation for my entry into the hip hop canon and the genre’s conversation. After that, I can explain how I believe my album will fit into that canon and conversation.

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Since I'm doing a creative thesis, I think my literature review will mainly be a set of readings/preliminary research for me to examine and cross-reference the intended impact of my ideas with the 'existing conversation".  For example: I think I'll research topics within film theory like the lenses of gender, race, and sexuality on an audience's perspective of the meaning of films (which is something bell hooks has written about!). I also want to examine genre theory, which will be greatly beneficial when employing a variety of aesthetics. Within that realm, I would benefit from researching the typical tropes within things like adventure narratives, magical realism and how stylized, dated, and overdone tropes can act as backdrops for modern day narratives and commentary (think about how older westerns were about heroes, then typically about the villains, then the genre was typically satirical, then it evolved into a modern social commentary). I think as a queer woman that grew up in the south, I'll also be able to add a new perspective to these tropes, due to the fact that the film industry is dominated by men, and I hope that that will help me create something unique, while learning more about the already existing world of film.

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The topic of music theory can be a difficult one to explain simply. You can deduce it down to simple conditions (minor sad, major good), but that doesn't do justice to the insane breadth of musical language. Single words without context can be very static and rigid. Once you put those words into context with one another, however, you start to see the purpose of language. Music, like language, aims to convey meaning. The most important source material for my project is going to come in the form of music theory books and music history books. I intend to establish a baseline of theory knowledge with the reader so it will be easier to follow the examples that I provide. There is a music history book by Alex Ross (The Rest is Noise) that I have anticipated reading and I think it would make for some interesting insights for my paper. Ultimately, music is subjective and varies greatly from culture to culture, so I can try my best to explore a variety of cultural perspectives on music, but there is a lot to cover.

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My thesis is going to be experiential, meaning the review of sources already out there will deal more with applied research than pure research. None of this is set in stone, but I plan to at least look into sources exploring the relatively new idea of the "internet of things" and embedded systems, given that they're what this project is all about. I could also find other projects like this and note any problems those researchers encountered to show I've done my homework and I'm prepared. To be totally honest, I haven't dipped my toes in to the research of this project, so I'm not totally sure what I'll find or what will be relevant in the tech world now. Those are my general ideas, but who knows what the real literature review will hold?
The reason why readers should care is because as technology becomes more accessible, it becomes easier and more affordable for anyone to work on a project like this and help automate their home. If I can do it, so can you!

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Because I will be writing a creative thesis, it will be interesting to figure out what kind of sources I need. I know that I will have to find sources that describe the mural-making process. I could also possibly look at sources that discuss the effect of public murals on a community if there are any. I could definitely write about what makes a mural a mural and what makes art art. To address the "why should we care" portion of They Say I Say, a good source to find would be one that discusses the effect of murals on communities or possibly the effect of art in general. I could try to find something to do with beauty and inspiration and maybe something about how visual art effects people psychologically. I'm just spitballing here.

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Since I'm writing a traditional Honors Thesis that will take the form of a history paper, it makes most sense to me to have my literature review resemble a historiography. For those who don't know, a historiography is essentially the "history of history". A historiography is when you write entirely about what other historians have said about the topic rather than what you think about it (that would be a historical research paper). From what I understand of a literature review, it will probably be best to form it as a historiography where I describe what leading historians in the field think about the role of Japanese pop culture as it relates to the United States. I will most likely want to cite a wide array of serious scholars in the field to show that this topic is legitimate and deserves the attention of whoever approves/ reads my honors thesis. Simply put, my first impressions of a literature review is that Ill need to write a historiography, detail my own position, and perhaps more than anything, stress relevancy.

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Like Colton, it makes sense for me to write my literature review as a historiography: an overview of popular opinions on the topic, major works and how they fit in the discipline, keeping my position in mind when deciding what details to share. I think I have a decent grasp on the literature surrounding Elaine, having already written a paper on it. I know I’ll want to include the major books, which I’m reviewing with my mentor now. Also included will be newspapers and historical articles from closer to the period, to demonstrate to my audience how past scholars “dropped the ball” on covering Elaine. Once I show them the importance of recovering this story, I can move into the section of literature that I’m less familiar with: popular/collective memory. I know virtually nothing about this now and the field is pretty small, but I’m preparing a reading list for that with my mentor at the end of the week. The goal of this section is to show my readers that I’ve familiarized myself with the field enough to write about it.

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O.T.: "Literature Review, What?" Discussion for Padlet