MUSIC103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Musicology
8 Sep 2016
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The condition of being a subject: i. e. , the quality of possessing perspectives, experiences, feelings, beliefs, desires, and/or power . The tether between listening choices and constructing a sense of self establishes boundaries of belonging, community, inclusion and exclusion (brabazon) Mobile devices enable us to control what we hear, creating personal soundworlds : acoustic space and visual experience. Acoustic space: the space we hear rather than the space we see resonance, amplification of the environment simultaneity, many events occur in the same zone of space-time atmosphere: o sound carries mood and affect, defining popular music. Popular music changes in its definitions as it moves through time and space. A term that often suggests inferiority, material of the masses . High versus low culture (but these boundaries are very fluid) Popular music becomes part of the shared experiences of a group or community, offering pleasure, resistance and narratives of love, romance, sex, masculinity, femininity, and desire. (brabazon)
