MUS 505 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Fugue, System On A Chip, Melodic Motion
4 Oct 2017
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Music categories: genre, style, idioms, etc: categories exist in relation to others, employ adjectives and metaphors, created for economic reasons, fusion: driver for change and creativity. Principal historical moments/markers: corner stones of context: Culture/cultural (cult): learned behaviours that in their totality are particular to a particular group; the process by which behaviours are learned (e. g. tradition, constant change) Society/societal (soc): focuses on the nature of human (or animal) interaction and frequently takes into consideration aspects of space, culture and survival. For humans (and many animals) society and culture are not mutually exclusive, but intrinsically connected: identity (iden): the sense that a person has of him/herself (see new fontana dictionary of. Involve agency, founded on experience, and (for these reasons) is subject to change: stereotyping: improper generalizations. Ethnic (racial): features (presumably!) based on common descent. Often a social construction (as is wholly the case for race)
