Research Paper HELP! (Johnny Cash)
 

So I got my 11th grade research paper assignment, and I chose Johnny Cash as my person to research. The main question I have to answer is:


I have to actually answer the question, rather than write a 4-6 page biography.

I have a thesis statement. However, finding info and trying to say how 3 major topics about his life changed history is a bit tough.

These are the 3 topics I wish to discuss, in order from least to most important. (However, if anyone thinks it should be different, please explain.)

1. 1. Johnny Cash's style of music conceived many other genres of music on the rise.
2. 2. Johnny Cash's "Man in Black" image helped solidify his place as a writer and performer.
3. 3. Johnny Cash's uprising, downfall, and climb back to musical power through drugs.

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Well, I reckon you oughta' get crackin' on that.

Yeah...good luck.

Okay, so what kind of compensation are we talking about here?

I normally charge to do other people's fuckin' work, you see.

1. Johnny Cash's style of music conceived many other genres of music on the rise.
Maybe
2. Johnny Cash's "Man in Black" image helped solidify his place as a writer and performer.
Guess so
3. Johnny Cash's uprising, downfall, and climb back to musical power through drugs.
Possibly

hehehehe

You should write it on GG Allin

Yeah, just take a stinky shit on a piece of paper and turn it in.

Johnny Cash started the Revolutionary War, that's how.

That sound like a line from Casino, or Good Fellas.
So let me guess your occupation... are you a hitman?

he made a bunch of idiot hipsters start paying attention to something their grandparents used to care about.

as for the other 3 questions, i wonder how much actual knowledge about music you really have. maybe i need to emphasize an preceding adjective.

1 - his style of music conceived many other styles on the rise?

what? are you trying to say he was a trendsetter? that's not quite the case, influential yes, innovative, not so much.

2 - the man in black angle?

so you're going to attempt to explain that a man's wardrobe is what solidified his cultural significance as a writer and performer over the actual words and performances he's done? .... yeah...

3 - his climb back to power, through drugs?

screw it i'm bolding it. Cash's climb back to the top had very little to do with drugs and very lots to do with Rick Rubin. hell, Rubin had to get Soundgarden to record a countri-fied version of 'Rusty Cage' before Cash would agree to cover it, you really think he would have covered NIN a few years later if this hadn't proven successful?

yo this research paper is gonna suck.

Guys - obviously, this thread was made by someone young whose knowledge of music and music history is limited - which in turn explains why he or she is asking for our help. The original post was respectful and friendly. Still, I see most here have taken the opportunity to get an excercise in hostility and to stroke your own egos. Is this really the kind of forum you guys want? An elitist one where any sign of weakness like missing knowledge about a band or artist or being a newcomer means you get to act like a dick?

And to cadgod, if you'd read this following bit of information, you would have known we're not keen on this sort of threads :

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Instead, I suggest you ask your questions in this thread : http://www.musicbanter.com/country-f...hnny-cash.html

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