MUSIC103- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 34 pages long!)
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Acoustic space: the space we hear rather than the space we see, resonance: amplification of the environment, simultaneity: many events occur in same zone of space time, atmosphere: sound carries mood and affect. Music becomes popular : tin pan alley and early jazz. Writing about music: gives meaning, importance and relevance to sound. Important to consider links between sound and reception, the music and audience: the best of popular music writing challenges us to move beyond our own ears, beyond our assumed categories, listening practices and playlists (b) American, irish american, african american: tin pan alley songs came to be accepted far beyond the community in and for which they had been created. Segregating sounds and developing markets: big bands, hillbilly, race. Cultural appropriation and commodification: the marketing of music often strips its cultural origin in order to appeal to a larger (and often white) audience.
