JOUR 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Salsa Music, Tom Waits, Mainstream Records
15 Mar 2019
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Tom waits: singers and songs are like seeds; they follow a large migration. When people leave their country and go on migrations, usually they take their stock of seeds and songs with them. I like the idea of people singing a song and then putting their own stamp on it and then passing it on like a tool. Two points: meaning in popular music is mediated by identity and that identity is subject to constant social negotiation. Negus" analysis of race and music also benefits from the subsequent development of social construction theory. Negus attacks essentialism as one of the traditional, ethno-musicological approaches to race. If essentialism seeks to locate specific musical elements or motifs as authentically black or. Latino, etc. , negus conversely argues that blues, salsa, or reggae are genres that support the social construction of musical as well as racial identities.
