Coming up with a Research Question You need to bring in your background knowledge to form a question about your artist.

. Your main question should focus the theme of transformation/change with the artist. It will help you explore whether your artist dealt with personal, social, or cultural change within his/her career. You should follow your main question with a series of smaller focus questions that illuminate your artists relationship with transformation. Example: Lucky Dube 1) Why is Lucky Dube considered to be a freedom artist? i) What happened to Lucky Dube that fated him to sing for freedom? ii) How did the SA apartheid regime react to Lucky Dubes message? iii) How did his message affect other oppressed people? iv) Why do I consider Lucky Dube to be an artist for social change?