MUS 505 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Iden, System On A Chip, Falsifiability

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Music
• Course: MUS 505
• Professor: Sean Bellaviti

Document Summary

What is studied in this course: sound and context (product and process) Ostensibly music: what is music, defining music is not necessarily easy due to the diversity and different global conceptualizations, can be defined that music is what any one individual, community, culture and/or society deems it to be. Understanding context (process: this course is a social and cultural history of north and us american popular music, timeline: 19th to 21st century. Identity (iden): the sense that a person has of themselves: involve agency, founded on experience, and for these reasons is subject to change, stereotyping: improper generalizations, important modes of identification: Ethnic and racial: features based on common descent, although often a social construction. Politics (pol): how humans make and act on decisions (social dimension: relations of power: Shaped popular music (more or less passively, depending on the context and musical choices: important tech developments: Communication technologies: printing/sheet music, phonograph, radio, film and television, digital and internet.