CMNS 321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Pop Will Eat Itself, Celia Cruz, Simon Frith

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMNS 321
• Professor: Vincent Andrisani

Document Summary

P op will e at its elf: retromania and p rog res s in p opular mus ic. Identity at the intersection of race and gender. Retromania: the role of the past in shaping the present and the future of popular music. Music focuses our attention on the feeling of time; it is our most vivid experience of there are four social functions of music. Nostalgia: a concept that originally implied a longing to return to a space rather than. But on the other hand, these terms are also indicative of the most modern, 2 longing for a time (which likely never existed) when it was easier and simpler to about the unknown. decipher a constantly changing world(cid:499) sarah baney-weiser: the past is safe. It"s used as a way to cope with our anxiety about the future, The worry is: what if we don"t have another jazz music in us, or now days it"s so tangible.