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We will be analyzing Natalia Lafourcade's albums Musas Vols. 1 and 2 and Un Canto por Mexico Vol. 1 for their use of folk-inspired natural imagery in representing a connection to country and latinx identity.
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Update 2/26 #2

Open ajm324 opened 3 years ago

ajm324 commented 3 years ago

At this week's meeting we divided the songs to begin markup, with each member taking a specific album (Grace - Musas 2, Joy- Musas 1, Autumn - Un Canto). We decided to make each song its own file, and to convert the genius lyrics to txt files before putting them into oxygen, adding extra metadata (writer, style, etc) and starting XML markup. We will need to associate each of these files with our preliminary schema, though we are prepared to edit the schema as we come across patterns that we may want to include as separate elements. By next Monday's meeting we each set the goal of starting markup on each album, completing at least two songs so we can have a clear idea of how long the process will take.

elizabethrapkin commented 3 years ago

It sounds like you guys have a good plan moving forward. Do you have any ideas of what type of patterns you may come across that may lead you to change your schema? My group is in a similar position - we are beginning markup and are prepared to change our existing schema should we notice some important factors that we want for analysis. Additionally, do you plan to create little bios for each song containing the metadata? I know that is something my group is also considering doing, so I was wondering what direction you guys may take this in.

ajm324 commented 3 years ago

The patterns that would change our schema are specific pieces of imagery that we feel would need their own set of classification, such as water which we further define as sea. As of right now, we are not adding a bio, but our metadata section contains a fair amount of information, specifically looking at the details most important to our topic such as song style and originality.

raisedDeadWizard commented 3 years ago

You guys seem off to a really great start on your project. Considering metadata is a huge thing that my group completely overlooked, so great job on remembering and including that. Our group is also working on starting our first markup with our schema pretty well flushed out, my only thought is, are you worried about some of the song's tone or connotation being lost in the genius of lyrics considering there is no context of how it was sang in the song? Or are you guys not worrying about it because it doesn't effect your research questions enough to worry about?