CULS20015 Lecture 3: genre and its (dis)content
15 Jun 2018
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Lecture 3: genre and its (Dis)Content
What is the point of music genres?
• Classify different type of music
• Create community
• Fundamental structuring force in musical life
• Categorical difference in the concept of music
Genre theory
• Genre as formulaic and conventional but also MORE than that
• Organizes a text ->has an effect on how meaning is produced and circulated
• Genre is a social as well as a textual practice
• Context of production and listening
• Basis for meaning making
• Important to marketing in the industry
• Organizational
• Dynamic, fluid, unstable, relational
• Produce and shape knowledge about things
• Propose use value of the text
• Part of material infrastructures
• Experience of a text organized in advance - intertexts,
Genre worlds
• A marker of how different musical spheres connect:
o Musical aesthetic
o Everyday life
o Social formations
o Music industry
• Genre as a reference for consumption but also confining -> artists who try to change genres
• Networks: social and discursive processes and relations that create and sustain a genre's identity
• Conventions: codes, values and practices
Frith's 5 broad genre rules
1. Formal and technical rules, rules about musical form
2. Semiotic rules - meaning produces
3. Behavioral
4. Social and ideological
5. Commercial and juridical
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