MUS 2420 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Louis Armstrong, Jazz Funeral, Corrido
Document Summary
Musical transmission is dependent in the process of remembering. Memory consists of fragments or traces scattered throughout the brain and must be reconstructed each time the memory is recalled. Memory is not like a photo journals. Memory, if it has not been forgotten entirely, can be transformed intentionally or accidentally (like remembering something that happened to someone else, happened to you) It repeatedly reminds us of our feelings at the time we first heard the music. Music making depends on individual and shared ( collective ) memories. An individual may compose a song, but it will last only if it is transmitted by others in a community. In latin america historical events have been remembered in corridos. Corridos-ballads composed and transmitted in mexico and within communities and. The corrido has long preserved the memory of specific historical moments and documented the lives of important individuals in mexican and mexican american history.
