Media, Information and Technoculture 2159F/G Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Art Music, Rock And Roll, Broadcast Range
20 Oct 2016
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Week 3 terminology and 19th c popular music. The body of music + others that scholars generally accept as the most important and influential in shaping western culture. Rooted in critical theory, feminism, critical race theory, and marxism. Traditionally: music theory ( analysis , music history ( biography , canon , ethnomusicology (study of non-western musics, relativism) Adorno: commercial culture, debased art, pop musicians are amateur, untrained. 19th century: minstrel show, parlour song, music hall/vaudeville. Early 20th century: ragtime, jazz, blues, swing, tin pan alley, folk, hillbilly (country & Late 20th century: rhythm & blues, rock & roll, rock , soul, motown, folk-rock, punk, hip- Piano is an industrial instrument: piano as domestic, private consumption of music, piano as female accomplishment . Main themes: nostalgia, distant beloved, death, songs of courtship. Worked in parlour song & minstrel show. 1st person in us to make a living as songwriter. Oh susanna : polka song, nostalgia, remembrance, california gold rush, 1848.
