MU121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Top500, Youth Culture, Jerry Wexler
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4 critical frames to analyse rock: musicological analysis, technological analysis, socio-cultural analysis, the discourse of authenticity analysis. Is there a rock canon: canon: a body of musical works and composers accredited with a high level of value and greatness, it is essentially a list of compositions and composers deemed worthy of preservation and study. Contemporary: reasonably active in the last few decades. Pepper is rolling stones top 500 firmly rooted in the past list by. 101 albums- chris smith: to form a canon you must suspend judgement, just because you like something it doesn"t mean it should be in the canon. Influential genres: rock comes out of 3 musical traditions that were popular between 1920-1950, pop- mainstream ex. Black music that included hip-hop and jazz: country and western. George and ira gershwin, jerome kern: money was made off of the sheet music (main unit of trade) not tapes, tightly controlled corporate run business model.
