AMS 335 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Vinyl Revival, The Freelance Hellraiser, Gnarls Barkley
17 Apr 2018
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Post world-war ii, two kinds of vinyl (single and album) and magnetic tape recording make records key to popular music. Electrification and amplification beefs up sound from rock and roll to arena rock. 1970s: disco and hip-hop djs use records to mix music, replace musicians. 1980s: music videos on cable tv change top 40 pop. 2000s: napster, guitar hero, ipod, mash-up, auto-tune, youtube, soundcloud, etc. Constant: technology makes new ways of creating music possible- a break with tradition that strikes some observers as not being music at all. Songs that combine two different songs, or more, into one. Mash-ups pit the style codes of two different genres against one another, or undercut a song connected to gender identity with a sillier song. Mash-ups can be viewed as both breaking down social divisions and as a sign that music has become less capable of representing people"s aspirations and beliefs.
