MUSI 1530 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Feedback, African-American Music, Crazy Blues
8 Nov 2018
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3 components of class: history has narratives, social-theoretic part (meaning to observe) Did not like standardization - all was the same: nothing really new allowed to music, changing instrument changes sound but not the song, music created as a thing sold as a thing (commodify) Music gives us identity: need make connections with another group, feel like they belong, tur(cid:374) i(cid:374)to the so(cid:374)g"s ideal su(cid:271)je(cid:272)t. Feedback loop: media watches kids and sells them the image of themselves, kids watch the images and aspire to be that mock, media watching them to make new images for them. Urban pressure groups looking for new product gave back to rural groups what it took from them. Receiving class (taking class) must add something to the music of their own and give it back. ** know the structure of the music industry for test (around 1914) In 1960s rise of the singer/songwriter: royalties.
