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ElbaGonzalezFirstEssay 3 - 26 Apr 2025 - Main.EbenMoglen
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< | It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind you how section and subsection titles are formatted. | | | From Nicaraguan Folk to Salsa: Music as a Tool for Resistance and Political Expression | | | As illustrated by my family’s experience with Nicaraguan folk music during the Revolution, music serves as a voice for the oppressed. This tradition is carried on by artists like Celia Cruz, Joe Arroyo, and Kendrick Lamar, whose work transcends cultural boundaries to amplify the struggles of marginalized groups. Through rhythm, lyrics, and performance, music remains a vital force for social justice, inspiring and empowering communities worldwide. Whether through Nicaraguan folk, salsa, or hip-hop, music will always be a powerful tool for political expression and civil disobedience. | |
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The best route to improvement is a tough edit to remove repetition. At the level of phrase as well as idea, the existing draft says too often the same things, from the "musical family" to the "tool for political expression." Finding the right place and the right way to say it once is the task in a short essay like this one.
The space recovered is needed for the ideas that don't find room here at present. How and why music works differently than other forms of political communication; the political economy of political music; the conduct and structure of musical repression: there are a series of subjects you can and should touch upon when the things you already valuably say are said in a more economical, space-saving fashion.
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