Performing Arts and Social Protest - ENGL 100 FA24

General Terms to Start: 

*Your word choice when you are searching can make a big difference in your results. Think of different terms you can use for your topic or even different spellings. Below are a few suggestions - there may be more terms to search.

• Theater can be spelled theater or theatre
• If you are researching films, you may want to use the term motion pictures or films or documentaries or movies
• If you are researching music, you could search for music or songs or instrumental music or you could name a particular kind of music like rap or folk music or spirituals
• For dance, the word dance will work or you can name types of dances like hip hop or flash mob

*Note: it is a good practice to put two-word terms in quotation marks to keep the words together in your search and always put and between your keywords

Try one of these general terms: "Social movements" or "social change" or "social justice" or "public demonstrations"

Connect your term above to the area of performing arts:

Ex: "social change" and dance

Ex: theater and "public demonstrations"

Get More Specific:

If you have a lot of results, then you can get more specific by adding more keywords

Ex: "social change" and dance and "Black Lives Matter"

Or name a particular movement or song or person or play

Ex: "protest songs" and "civil rights movement"

Ex: "Isadora Duncan" and "social change"

Ex: "Pussy Riot" and "public demonstrations"

Ex: songs and protest and history

*Note: think of searching as experimenting.  You won't get everything you need right away.  Keep connecting different terms in different ways.  Every time you change your terms, you will get a different list of results.