MUSIC103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Madonna (Entertainer), Jon Pareles, Mtv Channel
28 Nov 2017
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Nov. 20th virtual music, identity, and technology in the 1980s. The beatles in 1966: music programs (ex. Top of the pops) that showed music videos. Mtv 1981: new visual language for music, way of connecting music to advertising a way to sell music, consumption as identity. Why the 80s: 80s as a definition of style, tv becoming cheaper/more relevant (possibly many in a home, boom of speciality channels (ex. Mtv channel devoted to music: handheld video cameras are cheaper people becoming more familiar with this technology. How can voice and sound create spaces of instability: e(cid:454). (cid:863)lola(cid:863) - the kinks portrays hegemonic masculinity of the time. Major popular star in music and film. Wrote and produced most of her songs. F(cid:396)e(cid:395)ue(cid:374)tl(cid:455) a su(cid:271)je(cid:272)t of (cid:272)o(cid:374)t(cid:396)o(cid:448)e(cid:396)s(cid:455) (cid:894)e(cid:454). (cid:862)vogue(cid:863) a(cid:374)d (cid:272)ultu(cid:396)al app(cid:396)e(cid:272)iatio(cid:374)(cid:895) Presentation of sexuality, but also control: debate about whether this was a new form of feminism or a dismissal of it. Dance: escaping conventions of religions and bourgeois society.
