write a song about linkin park or just the band itself

Select one song that you think should have been included in this course and was not. Your task in this paper is to write what amounts to a mini-lecture about this song, capturing roughly what you would like to have heard Prof. Mercer-Taylor say about it. If you select a song from an artist or band that we have listened to one or more songs by, you should demonstrate why the song you picked reveals something new and enlightening.

There are many ways to approach this assignment. You may want to talk chiefly about the words of a song (though you should not talk ONLY about this), or about musical particulars, or about its relevance to the historical narrative of this course, or about the relevance of the artist/band who produced it. It is best if you are able to hit in some way on each of these, but this is not a hard-and-fast rule.

Your paper should be between 3 and 6 pages (typed, double-spaced, no larger than 12-point font). Pages should be numbered, and citations should take the “Notes and Bibliography” form described in the Chicago Manual of Style, with footnotes at the bottom of each page and a bibliography of all works cited (which does not factor into your page count!) at the end of your paper (the moodle page provides a link to a CMS website that will answer many basic questions about this style). Song titles should appear in quotation marks (not in italics), album titles in italics (without quotation marks).