MUSIC103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Family Values, Ballad Opera, Spirit Possession
Document Summary
Low culture (negative meaning - base; vulgar; common people) All killer no filler shorter song length (2-4 min) Age appropriate (marketing based on age, teenager market started in 1950"s. Parental advisory explicit content (wasn"t always there, was tied to us political admin, family values which wouldnt corrupt the youth) Look up will pittsburgh"s stephen foster statue be the next racist symbol to go and why the black community will never let michael jackson go) Great depression and woody guthrie"s this land is your land) Notes of criticism (your land, my land, land is ours) 1988- bush sr (used in campaign, got rid of critical aspects) Civil rights movement and billie holiday"s version of strange fruit . Multiculturalism and our post racial 21st century (colorblindness) Feminine and masculine genres (both performers and listeners) Absence of female figures in pop music history. Audience: teeny boppers vs white male hipsters. The impact of migration on musical style and practice.