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MUZC95H3 Musical Diasporas

A guide that assists in finding resources for the completion of course work in MUZC95H3 - Musical Diasporas

Choose Keywords

List keywords that relate each concept in your research (use a thesaurus, course readings, or lecture notes for ideas).

For example: "Is there a significant relationship between openness and employee performance?"

Keywords:

  • openness = open, intellectual, curious, thoughtful, creative
  • performance = evaluation, achievement
  • employee= staff, worker, operator

Generating Keywords

First, develop your research question: What are you trying to answer?

In order to develop keywords, look at the nouns within you research questions - persons, places, and things. You can also think about the 5Ws: 

  • Who
  • What
  • When
  • Where
  • Why

List keywords that relate each concept in your research (use a thesaurus, course readings, or lecture notes for ideas).

For example: "Is there a significant relationship between openness and employee performance?"

Keywords:

  • openness = open, intellectual, curious, thoughtful, creative
  • performance = evaluation, achievement

Generating Keywords

Research Question:

What factors have contributed to the global influence of Afrobeats music, and how has the genre played a role in shaping cultural identity and/or collaboration between musicians?

Concept 1: Afrobeats                                            

Concept 2 : Influence                                          

Concept 3: Collaboration                                                   

Dancehall

Soca 

Afrobeat

 

 

Collision 

Impact

 

 

 

partnership

fusion 

 

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