MUS 503 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Street Talk, Arthur Crudup, Cock Rock
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Topics: racial romanticism, essentialism in music blues, cover songs, r&b, reggae. The notion that individuals of a particular social type possess certain essential characteristics and that these are found expressed in particular cultural practices. (negus. Does not allow for diversity of voice within a group. Two tendencies: black exceptionalism: an essential, unchanging, racial self-functions as an ethnic absolutism. Allows for the romanticization of a stereotyped other. May function to support self-determination in those who are stereotyped. All contain an underlying racial self- something inherently black about them: black pluralism: abandons notions of similarity or shared identity between black people. What it means to be black varies across space and time. Can fragment collective action against stereotyping, racism, oppression. Immediate and improvised rather than thought about in advance. As music of the body (freedom of movement) Music that is performed rather than composed, recorded, written down, read. Emotional rather than intellectual- no strong message governing music.
