MUEL 2852 Lecture Notes - Lecture 33: The Jackson 5, Eddie Van Halen, California Love
14 Apr 2016
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Yet another of modern music"s tragic stories; murdered in a drive-by shooing in 1996 in las. Came from a background of militant associaions and violence. Mixes a salute to california with personal remarks; jail, jewelry, clothes, and obligatory commentary on street life. Variety of sounds; dark bass, high-register percussion and synth. Melody in sung secions and instrumental melodic fragments underneath sung vocals and raps. Rap/electronica are enduring and signiicant parts of the rock-era musical world. Various rock/rap fusions are evidence of its enduring inluence. Shows pervasiveness of an evolving rhythmic complexity, more emphasis on rhythm and the 16- beat layer. Represents the deconstrucion of popular song (the idea that the recording is the song) The idea of a deconstrucion of a song really comes through. The transformaion of the tv industry from a free signal to paid cable subscripion, allowed a fragmentaion of the market thus giving rise to independent cable channels.
