CSP Letter to the Free AQA A Level Media

Question 1

Common's former stage name was 'Common Sense'

Accepted Answer

True

Question 2

What could the camera movements represent?

Accepted Answer

Slow change in attitudes toward equality

Question 3

What does 'diaspora' mean?

Accepted Answer

The movement or migration, of a people away from their ancestral homeland

Question 4

What does the title mean?

Accepted Answer

An invitation in the form of a song to acknowledge and accept POC's history, Protest and judgement to white politicians for their role in discrimination

Question 5

According to the 'Jim Crow Laws' which of the following were enforced:

Accepted Answer

White convicts - separate area for both eating and sleeping from the negros, No coloredperson shall serve as a barber [to] white women or girls

Question 6

How can Hall's 'Representation theory' be applied?

Accepted Answer

References to 'slaves' and 'natives' are made to support political themes

Question 7

The first live performance of the song was in the White House during Barack Obama’s final year as President.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 8

Which theory can be applied to Common's LTTF video?

Accepted Answer

Strauss' 'Binary Opposites' theory

Question 9

The 'Caged bird sings for freedom' is a reference to a poem by:

Accepted Answer

Maya Angelou

Question 10

Which Netflix series features the song for it's thematic links?

Accepted Answer

13th Ammendment

Question 11

Which social movements resonate with this text?

Accepted Answer

#Oscarssowhite, #BLM

Question 12

What does the obelisk symbolise?

Accepted Answer

The journey of black history, development, infinite thing about blackness and that can’t be defined in time or space

Question 13

What is the effect of the absence of frontality used?

Accepted Answer

Detachment, isolation, othering

Question 14

The word 'FREEDOM' is sung 45 times in the song!

Accepted Answer

True

Question 15

What is shown in the final shot?

Accepted Answer

Plantation

Question 16

Which famous song is referenced in the lyrics "from southern trees we hung from" of this CSP?

Accepted Answer

Strange Fruit

Question 17

Def Jam Recordings is:

Accepted Answer

Based in Manhattan, New York City,, Has a London-based, UK arm known as 0207 Def Jam and is operated via EMI, An American multinational record label owned by the Universal Music Group., Specializing predominantly on hip hop, contemporary R&B, soul and pop

Question 18

What style of music is the song?

Accepted Answer

Hip-hop, blues

Question 19

The term 'post-colonialism' implies that the effects resonate through history

Accepted Answer

True

Question 20

Which two US leaders are referenced in the text?

Accepted Answer

Ronald Reagan & Donald Trump

CSP Letter to the Free AQA A Level Media

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