MUS 3308 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Segue, Simon Frith, Intertextuality
23 Apr 2016
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The term text" has been referred to as an author"s original words or a prose work. As a cultural studies term, text" can be referred to as any media form that is self- contained and conveys cultural meaning, including tv programs, recordings, film, books etc. In popular music there are many types of text (audio, audiovisual, visual, oral) While recordings are usually analyzed independently, they can also be considered collectively , as with content analysis of chart share in terms of genres, record labels, performers and country of origin. Intertextuality: the idea that a text communicates its meaning only when it is situated in relation to other texts; it is often characterised as meaning that arises between texts: when people do cover performances of pre-existing songs. Musicology and popular song the central textual form in popular music is the song, primarily reproduced as individual sound recordings: the single.
