MUS111H1 Lecture Notes - Ethnomusicology, Castrato, Electric Light
Document Summary
Media as extension of self/ medium is the message mcluhan. Technical objects reshaping human relations baudrillard. Shift from content of medium to effect on people. Light bulb expands relationship to environment, determine day. World as system, network, archive, storage system of info. Castrati prepubescent male singers who get sex organs removed for high voice. Related to social practices of music and perf. Tech and ethnomusicology study of music in culture. Tech: fully cultural progress, social meaning, not just things but how they"re used and conceived. Communities and cultural practice emerge through changing media and. Bob dylan at newport 1965 bring electric guitar, people outraged. 1960s folk audience: tech as unnatural, alienating, opposed ot art, community around folk authencity and ideal of face to face, avoidance. 1960s rock audience: tech embraced, creatively liberating, atuthentic individual, adaptation. What degree tech determine human actions, does tech shape or shaped by society. Drives paradigm shifts in history feudalism -> capitalism, industrial revolution, globalization.
