MU121 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: The Breeders, Uncle Tupelo, Campus Radio
Lesson 11: The Ride of Women and Alternative Rock
Intro
- Musical Innovations: cut n mix aesthetic
- Rap's social critique
- MCing has emphasis on black cultures
Recap
- Madonna is a feminist by being individual
- Madonna essentially explodes old ways of performance of femininity in new ways
o Part of the rise of female voices
o Allows different avenues for women to explore as performers
- Metal
o Dionysian vs. Chaotic
o Partying vs. Dark
- Rap
o Technological and musical advancements
▪ Break-beats, orality, sampling, making remixing popular
o Black self-representation
▪ Critique of violence that happens in black culture
▪ Main theme where dancing becomes the outline for gangs as opposed
to violence
▪ Rap de-emphasizes violence
▪ Under slavery, illegal to read/write
▪ Big oral culture
▪ Exaggerated language
▪ Use of voice and rhythm as a foundation
- Collective Voice: cut-and-mix culture
o Songs collectively written – many songs remixing of previously written songs,
and there is also a breakdown in the gap between performance and audience
o Speaking for and with a group rather than about yourself
1990s
- Rock is old – we had corporate rock, reactions, and then return of corporate rock with
MTV and such
- Then, angry white males start indie rock bands come up
- Cities have distinct sounds
o Can't pinpoint corporate rock to a region
o Alt takes it back to regional sounds
▪ Seattle, LA, Florida, etc.
o Can music today have regional sounds?
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Document Summary
Lesson 11: the ride of women and alternative rock. Madonna is a feminist by being individual. Madonna essentially explodes old ways of performance of femininity in new ways: part of the rise of female voices, allows different avenues for women to explore as performers. Rock is old we had corporate rock, reactions, and then return of corporate rock with. Then, angry white males start indie rock bands come up. Indie: a value system: a variety of underground genres, based on different regional scenes supported by loose infrastructure; fan zines and college radio, it is a collection of various sounds housed under a particular value system. Alternative: a marketing label to market the indie aesthetic to a wider audience mainstream: corporate sponsored version, though it started off as an alternative to the. Rems rise convinced indie to believe in itself: nirvana convinced the rest of the world to believe in indie.
