KRSG 15B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ad Hominem, Hyperbole
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Hierarchy: structure in which groups are ranked one above the other according to status or power, usually with successively higher power granted to groups of decreasing size. Music is evolutionarily militaristic, could bring people together or separate them. Representation: ways individuals are seen, heard, and understood. The act of standing for a person or group, as in the capacity of a person to represent a point of view. The act of signifying, or standing for something as in the capacity of a word, a poem, a symbol, or an image, to call to mind a meaning. Words are not always literal, they are small and represent other ideas. Music after wwii was about a man looking at a woman or a woman wanting to be looked at by a man. Music after wwii emphasized the backbeat, going against the main rhythm. The study of the structure and conventions of expression, and especially of how those conventions contribute to persuasion.
