MUSIC100 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Guide: Counterpoint, Soltyrei, Twerking

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Lecture 2 - music becomes popular : tin pan alley and early jazz. Today"s topics: writing about music, musical analysis, tin pan alley (introduction to ) Writing can give meaning, importance, and relevance to sound. Writing about music lters topics for us. Important to consider links between sound and reception, the music and audience. The best of popular music writing challenges us to move beyond our own ears, beyond out assumed categories, listening practices and [playlists] (brabazon 36) Sometimes it can be a challenge to get out of certain cliches or structures that we use overtime. Sometimes narratives get amped up on the radio, blogs, etc. Lyrical analysis - what they are saying and what they might not be saying. Political resistance - the temptation to think about how a song is doing. Hard to write without falling back to the default setting of lyrical analysis, political resistance and masculine authenticity . Music journalism versus academic writing about popular music.

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