MUSIC 2II3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Nazi Salute, Nazi Propaganda
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Popular music as an important means through which socio-cultural issues get played out. Art not only reflects culture, but helps produce it. U2 released their new album on the 9th of september 2014, added to everyone"s itunes for free. Media started to numb us to rally horrific things starting with the coverage of the gulf war. All the images that were flashed on the screen, some of it from nazi propaganda movie. We can take the images and try to make sense of it. When you see u2"s bono appear he appears to be goosestepping he appears to be doing the heil hitler sign. He created this rockstar persona, plastic, not authentic, some cross between elvis presley and jim morrison of the doors. This was just a character that he was playing because it was different from what he was and from what he"s been after so he was just fooling the fans.
