MUSI 1002 Study Guide - Final Guide: Musicology, Content Analysis, Dixie Chicks
22 Jun 2014
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Text is any form of media that is self-contained and conveys cultural meaning. Includes recordings, album covers, music videos, live performance. Textual analysis concerned with identifying and analyzing formal qualities of texts, structures and characteristics. Intertextuality text only conveys meaning when situated in relation other texts. Contesxts plays huge role how meanings interpreted. Three forms text: graphic musical and video. Concert posters, street flyrics, tshirts, packaging of albums. Musical texts: includes study of both music and lyrics. Analysis: tensions in the field of musicology. Musical context best undestood when analyzed in social context. Lyrics analysis: content analysis deals with subject matter music video: music videos are promotional devices pre-occupation with visual style videos abolish traditional boundaries between image and its reallife referent. Genres: a category or type organizing element: musical characteristics time periods uses types of listeners defined by distinctions made by music industry. Genres standardize codes and conventions musical, lyric, visual, ideological codes are fluid.
