[MUSC 2140] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (82 pages long!)

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Chapter 1 studying popular music: basic tools. Rock music was born out of controversy and upset a lot of people: elvis, beatles, jim morrison, alice cooper, david bowie, rock popular music that is produced specifically for a youth audience. Rock has had a great influence on the history of music. Tv, radio, magazines, and books do a good job of teaching us music history context: avoid the fan mentality, rolling stone, mtv, vh-1, classic rock radio. Charts help us draw general conclusions about the popularity of a song or. Popularity arc small beginning, rise, and then retreat of a genre: e. g. Punk music in the late 70s and early 80s. A song"s meaning can change over time, need to understand its historical: e. g. Rock around the clock (1955) was very suggestive for the time, but viewed in today"s light it is not racy in the slightest values.

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