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Article Selection[edit]

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

Article title: Kakko
Article Evaluation: This article is a stub with only a short paragraph and no citations. The only links are to two other Wikipedia articles.
Sources: This drum is written about in several articles and books dealing with court music and the music of kabuki theatre.

Article title: Nagauta
Article Evaluation: This article is a stub with only a brief entry and a lack of citations.
Sources: William Malm published several journal articles and a whole book about Nagauta. There are other scholarly sources on this topic as well.

Article title: Gagaku
Article Evaluation: Rated start-class and of high importance to the Japan Project. The article has a modest history section and a list of instruments with links to their Wikipedia entries. There is a brief reference to gagaku's influence on western music.
Sources: There's a limited reference list although several sources are scholarly. A quick Google Scholar search suggests that there are many additional scholarly sources by multiple authors that could be cited.