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Assignment:

Prompt:

Personhood is performed, declares N06 (179). Using pop music as the backdrop for his theoretical musings on the art of performance and audiences' participation in it, he builds on his declaration of the correlation between personhood and performance. His exploration of pop music reveals that it transcends musical conventions to use language and ideas" to express social meaning (180). The performer uses style, he contends, to become an agent of the art of style put on display and invites the audience to participate not only in the performance, but in defying convention to use style as a form of self-expression and the production of social meaning.

David Treuer traces the early history of native Indian tribes to document how external forces caused internal strife to deny personhood for Native peoples, as well as the freedom to speak, and be heard, as full-?edged members of the American family. For the Indian in America, he insists, acquiring personhood and the agency that comes with it has spanned generations highlighted by struggle, disappointment, betrayal, and exclusion in the service of social control. Just as pop musicians use music videos to spread their message to a broader audience, Indians are effectively using social media to reclaim their heritage, languages, traditions, and style, and ?om newly earned positions of power they have begun to demand recognition and with it change.

Using both authors, answer the following question.

Question:

How do differing perspectives of personhood grant or limit individuals and communities the freedom to chart their own course [write their own story]?