15/05/11

Bibliography is now complete! everything has been organised and referenced properly and therefor everything for my dissertation titled "Rastafarianism and its influence on the lyrics of reggae music" is done :D

I am so happy with everything i have achieved through doing this, my organisation, research and writing skills have vastly improved. and also i have a new found understanding in the religion of Rastafarianism.

So that concludes this Blogg.... hope you've enjoyed following me :)

take care

JP Parsons

07/03/11

Sorry for missing a week back there... I was away for a photoshoot down in Essex with my band Eat Dr. Ape. I have made some progress with the Rastafarianism background section of my study. Talking of their concept of what 'Babylon' is and how it has become a highly important part of the faith in which they believe. hopefully I make a good bit of progress in the next week. :)

JP

21/02/11

Well Iv managed to started writing about the background of Rastafarianism and so far its proving a tough one as I want to give the reader an appropriate understanding of the faith. This week i have focused on its origins in Ethiopia stemming from Marcus Gravy's prophesy of a black king appearing in Ethiopia... this came in the form of Haile Selassie. I feel I have learnt a great deal about the faith in the past week and hopefully the progress continues:

JP

14/02/11

This week I haven managed to achieve as much as I would have liked as im starting to get into the bad habit of writing lots, the being over critical and deleting it! So im quite disappointed with the amount I have managed to achieve... hopefully get more done next week! Im still work ing through the history of the faith and its proving to be rather cryptic to say the least.

JP

07/02/11

Well I found a quote to open my dissertation with! I chosen a quote from Roy Shukers 2nd edition of his book 'Popular Music; The Key Concepts'. It reads: ‘Reggae is strongly associated with Rastafari, variously considered as a social movement, a religious cult, and a Jamaican subculture, which came out of the ghettos of Kingston, Jamaica in the 1950s.’ I feel this is a great way to open my study. Also I have now finished my introduction and have been advised to now move onto talk about the background of the faith of Rastafarianism.

JP

31/01/11

first of all Happy New year all!!! That's us all back at college now and its time to get on with this dissertation! Iv started thinking about my intro and i have shown the first part of it to my advisor and so far she seems to be quite happy with it. She has given me some great constructive criticism on it so I will now go back and correct it accordingly and open the paper with a qhote like she has suggested.

JP

17/12/10

Well today was submission day! Oh my god the amount of stress iv been put through in the last 8 hours is unreal!!!! I realy hope i dont EVER have to be put through that again! I got the literature review handed in but im not happy with it at all! my referencing was awful! I realy dont think ive got a good mark for that :(

Anyway im gonna sign off for the next few weeks as its Christmas time... hope everyone has a good one!

JP

13/12/10

This week I have shown my advisor my progress with my Literature review. She can tell im struggling as I have to admit I am not 100% clear on what the true purpose of it is. she has given me a few pointers in how to go about completing it but to be honest its not much clearer.... im starting to panic! Its due on friday!!!!!!!

JP

06/12/10

Hello!!! Well I have managed to complete a good few notes on Bass Culture... I have found it quite informative and i have managed to pick up a couple of very appropriate quote out of it. Literature review has to be in a week on friday so im starting to worry about that! Because i have been lazy and haven realy started it! That my fault though for being stupid, but im sure il get it done... anyway till next week!

JP

09/05/11

That's my conclusion to my dissertation all done now :) took a while but got there in the end. I feel it somes up my findings well and is a good we to round up all my hard work.

The end is near!!!! :D

JP

02/05/11

I have now started concluding my study. I am struggling with it slightly as I am finding it a lot harder than i first anticipated it being. I am wanting to take my time over this conclusion as so far I feel my study has been meeting quite a high standard and i dont want the last paragraph to let it down!

JP