[MUS 114] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (33 pages long)
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High brow: made for upper class, need background to understand. How was this determined? (the listener itself) If stable, then leads to communication from artist to listener. Verbal acts occur when in similar conditions. Speaker-listeners connection will allow writers to predict that certain. Listener reacts the same way as speaker communication. With this verbal form, both parties can learn more and more about each other. Songwriters aren"t responsible for what you perceive of it. You may be going off of what you already know. They are influences that are on the author. Author = some made it, then you can do whatever you want with the work. Three dimensions of pop culture: lived culture, symbolic forms in the culture, economics that create the text. Became for all men (strictly for white men) Post-war had different minstrel values and themes. Minstrel allowed those who aren"t black (european immigrants) to become one of the privileged white.
