CULS20015 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Musical Composition
15 Jun 2018
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Lecture 6: hip hop, r&b, soul and the cultural politics of race
Music composition and communication
• Musical speech used as a language
Call-response
• Implies presence of signifying figures and signifying revisions
• Music react and interacts with other music through lyrics, aesthetics, beats etc
• Music as a form of sonic communication
Cyphers
• Conceptual space in which a heightened consciousness exists
• Encode meaning (performer), decode meaning (listener)
afrofruturism
• Self-conscious appropriation of tech in black pop culture in order to think our problems of
imaginative freedom in the past, present, and future
• Imagined future to take themselves out of racial discourse
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Document Summary
Lecture 6: hip hop, r&b, soul and the cultural politics of race. Music composition and communication: musical speech used as a language. Implies presence of signifying figures and signifying revisions: music react and interacts with other music through lyrics, aesthetics, beats etc, music as a form of sonic communication. Cyphers: conceptual space in which a heightened consciousness exists, encode meaning (performer), decode meaning (listener) afrofruturism. Self-conscious appropriation of tech in black pop culture in order to think our problems of imaginative freedom in the past, present, and future.
