MUS111H1 Lecture Notes - Signify, Otis Redding, You Really Got Me
Document Summary
Publicity and intimacy with popular music (love songs), personal feelings are always presented as opposed to regular, everyday life, where it can be harder and/or less important to do so. You identify with the songs as they use pronouns. Revolution of sense consciousness; discreteness of the senses, music as sound only. Mediation and authenticity; place : north american popular music . How music reflects, critiques, references social life, how it imagines alternatives. Poetics: the creative principles informing any literary, social or cultural construction, or the theoretical study of these; a theory of form (oed) Social poetics: such creative principles that pertain to (reflect, reference, etc. ) social life. Pere ubu: nonalignment pact (1978: nonalignment pact = the pact of countries that didn t want to ally with the soviet. Union or the united states and nato: becomes an expression for a love relationship not that you have the autonomy to say. Tools for discussing the social poetics of music.
