MUS 3308 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Musicology, Media Studies, Culture Industry
23 Apr 2016
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Scholarly (books or articles on sociology, media studies, musicology etc. ) Definition of popular music and the issues with the definition: Commercialization: music created for commercial use; music"s place in the media. Status as a commodity: connected to commercialization, but to its economic mean. Mass appeal: music that reaches large audiences (is the music most often consumed through sales and airplay) Geographic location (our popular music isn"t popular everywhere in the world and in every language) Time period (our popular music only began post 1920s and popular music changes through time) Social and cultural context: most people think popular music is the opposite of classical music. Some popular music does not reach large audiences. A lot of music deemed popular has lyrical and visual similarities: ex: if mary plays music only for herself, but it sounds like country, is it popular music? (similarities but no large audience)
