MUEL 2852 Lecture Notes - Lecture 34: Eddie Van Halen, Culture Beat
14 Apr 2016
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Extensive use of electronic sounds: sustained chords, hornlike sounds, bass rif. Dense texture with several instruments playing rifs and muliple percussion instruments. Acive rhythm with 16-beat rhythm over a strong back beat. Video heightened the music video to an art form. Her talents are of a diferent sort than the other major arists of her era. Charted her own path to success through controversy, clever markeing and expert business savvy. Musically she combines catchy hooks, trendy sounds and high-level producion. Fully exploited the medium of mtv and videos. While madonna is not musically innovaive she has certainly redeined the role of women in pop music, and challenged the value systems of the music business and society at large. First mtv music awards appearance a lot like the one miley cyrus did. Not necessarily as musically talented as other arists, but had a very well crated image. Striking contrasts in sound and texture: melody plus sustained chords form dense texture with.
