MUSI 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: African-American Culture, Literary Theory, Intertextuality
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How people engage with music and how we interpret meanings varies. Doesn"t include social media as a form of text interpretation in his chapter. A lot of people use it to discuss meanings between different songs. Ex: different dialogue between original song and cover. Also looks at discourse within a particular genre. Comparing songs that are branded as being within the same or different genres. Pop music texts can reproduce dominant social values or resist them. Preferred reading is the most common message deciphered from a particular musical text. Artist might have a particular intent with a song, but if the majority of listeners don"t interpret it in that way, it does not negate this new interpretation. Any visual text associated with artist aside from video. Album covers are still relevant even if people don"t buy cds. Album art still shows up in mp3 files when the music is downloaded. Album covert art is associated with the music.