User:Jordywalsh/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Article title
 * Emo rap
 * Article Evaluation
 * Article Evaluation

The article establishes a good foundation of information regarding the genre, including its aesthetic inventions and lyrical themes. The history section of the article, however, feels a bit imbalanced, with a great deal of space dedicated to precursors and over half of the following section dominated by the deaths of many of the genre's leading artists. Additionally, the article feels a little slight with regard to the description of the actual genre aesthetics, reception, and controversy related to Emo rap.


 * Sources
 * Sources

Academic source that attempts to establish some scholarship on the genre — Vergez, Fabrice, "Xanny Help the Pain"

Book on Lil Uzi Vert that might allow for more aesthetic description — Henzel, Cynthia Kennedy, Lil Uzi Vert: Emo Rap Pioneer

Option 2
I'm lumping these three together because I am still mulling over which one(s) would most directly benefit from an update of the sort that I am envisioning. All of these articles are sort of out of date, all of them missing an account of the most recent wave of the genre, often (kind of jokingly) called "fifth wave emo." This wave distinctly works to counter some of the common problems of the genre — particularly its historical centering of a white, straight, cis male perspective — its most prominent artists being (and writing about being) queer, transgender, Black, indigenous, or people of color. These topics became very important in the last five or so years in the genre, and all of these articles could use some update about this change. There won't be any academic work on fifth-wave emo given the fact that it's a fairly recent development (and there's very little scholarship on emo in general). However, some other reputable sources have covered this new wave.
 * Article title
 * Emo revival, Emo, or Midwest emo
 * Article Evaluation
 * Article Evaluation
 * Sources
 * Sources

Feibel, "The New Generation of Emo In Eight Releases," Bandcamp Daily

The Ringer Staff, "Thirteen Emo Playlists to Melt Your Black Heart" — has a working definition of the fifth wave

Galil, "A Chicagoland emo obscurity resurfaces to influence the genre’s fifth wave"

Option 3
This is a more recent, prominent band in the emo movement that deals with queerness and Blackness in a scene that has historically excluded these identities. This band notably draws heavily from the genre's past lives and has gotten quite a bit of coverage in major publications (Pitchfork, Stereogum, etc.)
 * Article title
 * Proper (Band) [no existing article]
 * Sources
 * [research in progress]
 * [research in progress]

Option 4

 * Article title
 * Scene
 * Article Evaluation
 * Article Evaluation
 * Sources
 * Sources