UNAS 1106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: African-American Music, Louis Armstrong, Nazi Chic
20 Mar 2017
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A hole in our soul: the loss of beauty and meaning in popular music. Origins of american popular music: pop music and pop culture are not terrible but usually are, jazz is the highest form of music. Subgenres of music spawned from the afro-american roots. Lecture 22: everything comes from one place and is more or less of a rip off, everything that does not completely represent the modes of african american music. Metal: movement from rock, rolling stones are big influence, alimont, anti-woodstock, violence and neglecting compassion in music. Lecture 22: antithesis of afro-american music, objectification of music, became a way for people to vent their anger. Punk: boutique sold nazi chic attire, big with the sex pistols, violence and obscenity, gave way to thrasher and more hard core music, started with a beat (like the blues) then developed in monotonous, ramones. Synth: synthesized music, mtv, deviates what the music is about, music becomes the background to the visual.
