MUSI 2540 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Gregory Bateson, Semiotics
9 May 2018
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Deep Participation through Music
● According to Donnelly Roark, deep participation generates an inclusive solidarity that is
stabilized and sustaining, resulting in the creation of a social integrative power that can
be maintained over long periods.
Why music matters…
“Musical participation and experience are valuable for the processes of personal and
social integration that makes us whole” -Turino
According to anthropologist Gregory Bateson…
“Arts are central to human evolution and human survival.”
Peirce and Semiotics: The Study of Signs
● Icons allow us to communicate about something through its resemblance. Iconic
processes:
○ Help us to recongize patterns,
○ Ignite our imaginations
○ Arouse our emotions.
○ Ex: a picture of a horse is an icon of a horse, i can then know a horse and be
able to get that’s what we’re talking about.
● Indexes enable us to experience a sign and its object together (e.g. smoke is an index
of fire).
○ Semantic snowballing: old indexical connections remain and new connections
accumulate.
○ Ex: an ad jingle is the icon, an ad jingle for Kit Kat is the index (within context of
the KitKat company)
● Symbols are general signs (e.g. the word cat is a general symbol for the feline species)
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Document Summary
According to donnelly roark, deep participation generates an inclusive solidarity that is stabilized and sustaining, resulting in the creation of a social integrative power that can be maintained over long periods. Musical participation and experience are valuable for the processes of personal and social integration that makes us whole -turino. Arts are central to human evolution and human survival. Icons allow us to communicate about something through its resemblance. Ex: a picture of a horse is an icon of a horse, i can then know a horse and be able to get that"s what we"re talking about. Indexes enable us to experience a sign and its object together (e. g. smoke is an index of fire). Semantic snowballing: old indexical connections remain and new connections accumulate. Ex: an ad jingle is the icon, an ad jingle for kit kat is the index (within context of the kitkat company)
