Music 1730A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Rude Boy, Transnationalism, Rastafari

• School: Western University
• Department: Music
• Course: Music 1730A/B
• Professor: Marion Mac Leod

Document Summary

Popular music culture (cid:18535) making, disseminating and consuming music (cid:18535) associated economic and technological practices (cid:18535) recordings, sounds, images and discourse created by these practices. The conflict (cid:18535) music as expression and music as commodity debate (cid:18535) ever-present suggestion of a shift from active musical production to passive pop consumption, decline of community and tradition, loss of musical skill (cid:18535) truth, authenticity, sell-outs. North american phonograph company (cid:18535) 1888 licensed to market edison"s phonograph (cid:18535) dictating device that became more popular for entertainment purposes (cid:18535) columbia"s catalogue includes the following genre categories: (cid:18535) sentimental (cid:18535) topical (cid:18535) negro (cid:18535) comic. Industry (cid:18535) irish (cid:18535) shakespearean recital (cid:18535) the laughing song george w. johnson (1898) (cid:18535) by 1914 patents are expiring (cid:18535) hardware the furniture, the permanent capital of home entertainment (cid:18535) software what it plays. What counts" as art? (cid:18535) high-low cultural division.