MUS110H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Degenerate Art, Pj Harvey, Anohni
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Term assignment: newspaper articles for assignment, nyt, rolling stones, you can cite wallace. Music is partisan; it is always for someone or against someone else . All music is political, right? : that music can be political is quite often clear in text or imagery . Pete seeger: a lullaby is a propaganda song, in the opinion of the three-year-old who doesn"t want to be put to sleep , when you don"t like the politics of something, it"s propaganda. Which side are you on? : written in 1931, timbre, raspy, rough, texture, monophonic, form, strophic. Council of trent (1545: polyphony, church music had become too decadent, decadent opera halls of the 18th-19th century, music in shopping malls. Eduard hanslick: on beautiful in music: music consists of succession and forms of sound, and these alone constitute the subject it speaks nothing but sound , argued for the separation of music from everyday life following the revolutions of 1848.
