User:GoatedScholar12/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Asian Americans in music

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose the article because it was a topic I knew very little about. The article just seemed interesting because I was curious about what type of music it would predominantly cover.

Evaluate the article
Everything in the article is relevant to the topic. However the inclusion about Asian musicians abroad really made very little sense, if the article is about Asian Americans it should make them the primary focus. In bringing up the differences between both groups it asserts an analytical view point that is far from necessary. The article also distracts the reader and takes attention away from U.S. racism and its impact on Asian Americans.

This article provides very little coverage on the Asian American musical experience. It relies on bringing up issues abroad. Furthermore it gives little attention to the experience of Japanese American musicians and Chinese American musicians. The articles about the two populations could easily be articles on themselves. The article also only focuses on East Asian populations and could divert more time and coverage to South East Asian Americans and their experience. The article needs to divert far more attention to the instances of Asian Americans in music.