MUS 114 Lecture Notes - Atari Teenage Riot, Nile Rodgers, Mass Media
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White people making money/becoming famous imitating performing genres pioneered by african americans. Example 2: we shall overcome joan baez, 2010, black flags atari teenage riot, 2011. White people doing african american music (see example 1) Starting mid 1800 s: politics of identity. More than music; participation/becomes cultural/how you identify yourself: appropriation. Borrowing ideas/outright stealing (vanilla ice poor urban class situation to benefit his career actually from middle class suburban family) Elvis grew up in poor af. Historically: musicology study of music on its own, ethnomusicology cultural aspects of music in popular culture/culture in general. Ethnomusicology study of people making music. Scope of the course: popular music in northern american from 1799 present day. Reader read in advance for section (20%: section assignments upload on gauchospace, by 9 pm night before section. Listening some on gauchospace, some on spotify. Semi-weekly quizzes lecture (6 of them, 5 count for grade) 25: short answers.
