CMST 2G03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Rock Music, Performance Studies, Masculinity

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: CMST 2G03
• Professor: Jocelyn Smith

Document Summary

Performance, ritual and belonging - the body in concert. Utterances are performative - mean something or do something. Kinds of gestures, the ways we can read the gestures. Iconic (acting out: metaphoric (broadly, deitic (pointing, beat (movement) What they might communicate or how they work together. Extra-daily techniques (take a lot of energy, over the top, seem normal in certain environments) Bodily presence (stage presence, audience members drawn in) "fictional body (larger than life, separate from regular identity) Feeling the performance, being part of the physical experience. Mimic the sounds that our favourite artists make. What it feels like to sing the lyrics. Audio and video (what are we listening to and how, what are we watching and how, who made the recordings, how was it framed, how does it make us feel) Performance and improvisation (question of intention, image put forward based on common belief or assumption)