MUS111H1 Lecture Notes - Crooner, Signify, Love In Vain
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Idea of genre in early north american folk-music landscape. Folk term associated with rural peasantry, which north america has never really had. Often the idea of folk music is associated with the simple ideas of the origin of popular music, but it s more complicated than that banjo, being a recreation of an af. Impression these processes of mass mediation played in the origin of folk. Example: different versions of i am a man of constant sorrow . Older version has pretty minimal variation; modern version takes on a different form and incorporates more instruments (role of instruments is much more important) Older version: older version is more stoic . Person: 1st / form: light / content: sad, tragic, etc. Direct expression requires device of emotional restraint protestant cultures , allows for a certain kind of pained expression. Content expresses one meaning, but the form relays a different aesthetic style in the contrast, the meaning is more effective.
