MUSI 1002 Study Guide - Winter 2019, Comprehensive Final Exam Notes - Popular Music, The Beatles, Rock Music
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Constraints and creativity - arguments and framework (textbook pg. On the radio, streamed/listened to by most people. Often showcased in media, unproblematic (for the most part) Usually follows a versed pattern, simply structured (for the most part) 4-part definition (frans birrer, 1985: popular music is an inferior type (normative) > created as a product to be consumed like a mass product. > takes it from common ownership to corporation: history of popular music. Prior to printing, music was spread through oral communication. > print as a way of popularization started as early as the 15th c. Modern commodification of popular music through print and performance traced back to tin. > art music / folk music : high and low culture. > produced and consumed outside of economic exchange. > associated with high(er) social classes, such as nobility, the church, and bourgeoisie. > musical / cultural literacy required (more complex) > produced and consumed in conditions of economic exchange.
