MUS 109 Lecture 20: New Technology
Document Summary
Lecture 20 - new technology of the 1980s. Influence of black music of the 60s: r&b and soul. A lot of the lyrics in the song contain sexual innuendo as in the blues tradition. Horns - led by wayne jackson, memphis horns, associated with stax records in the. Sampler - emulator ii - sampling the sound of a shakuhachi flute. Video for sledgehammer - 1987, directed by stephen r. johnson, used claymation, pixilation, and stop motion animation. Blur the conventional boundaries of race, religion, and sexuality. Changing strategies: new images of their musical personas. In 1993, felt that record company had too much control had the name prince and changed it to a symbol. Washington dc: tipper gore, susan baker, pam howar, sally navius. They felt that music was becoming too explicit and then added labels to music for explicit music. Instrumentation: guitar, drums, synthesizers, and piano, strings (violin, viola, cello) Religious imagery of purple rain: the end of time.
