MUS 505 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-2: Artists And Repertoire, Fangyan, Individualism
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1 themes and streams of american popular music. Theme 2: music and id expression: we may identify with lyrics of a song or it can help us shape our identity, see it as a form of. 2 popular music of the 19th and early 20th centuries. The minstrel show: the 1st form of musical and theatrical entertainment to be regarded by european audiences as distinctively american in character, featured mainly white performers who blackened their skin and performed parodies of. Susanna was sold to a music publisher, he didn"t receive any of the profits . Illustrates the state of copyright at the time. The ragtime craze, 1896 1918: ragtime: musical genre of african american origin. Popular music/culture, culture industry, mass media: the mass media of communication are those institutions that produce and distribute info, visual and audio images on a large scale. Vision is dominant: print read privately individualism, electronic media neglects space and time.