2. There will be two tasks:
1. An Ethnography
2. A Dissertation (2000 words)
3. AIM & PURPOSE OF THE CLASS
‘Music is wanted sound.’ Larry Austin (composer)
‘Music is the organization of sound and time.’ Elliott
Schwartz (composer)
‘Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher
world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but
which mankind cannot comprehend.’ Ludwig van
Beethoven, quoted by Bettina von Arnim. Letter to Goethe
(1810)
‘Music is a safe kind of high.’
Jimi Hendrix, quoted in Green, The Book of Rock Quotes
(1982)
‘You just pick a chord, go twang, and you’ve got music.’
Sid Vicious, quoted in Green, The Book of Rock Quotes
(1982)
5. BUT WHY BOTHER?
Driving a cultural idea – WWI & heroes
Subjugation of people – women, non-white participants
Subjugation of culture – Iran https://www.ted.com/talks/shirin_neshat_art_in_exile?language=en
Beginning and then 2:44 – 3:30
Only as entertainment - Everything is Awesome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cQgQIMlwWw
6. CULTURAL OBJECTS
Music is a cultural object and gives information about the
producer of the music and the society that receives it.
THERE IS NO NEUTRAL POSITION
A network
7. A BRIEF HISTORY OF MUSIC
Self-preservation
Music from the heavens
Jongleurs
Court musicians/church musicians
Capitalism
8. TOWARDS A DEFINITION OF
MUSIC
(Music) has multiple simultaneous forms of existence and it
needs to be grasped as an aggregation of sonic, discursive,
visual, technological and mediatic, corporeal, and temporal
mediations (Georgina Born)
Sonic – SOUND
Discursive – WHAT TOPICS RELATE TO IT
Visual - SIGHT
Technological - TECHNOLOGY
Mediatic – HOW WE RECEIVE IT
Corporeal - BODY
Temporal - TIME
9. You all make music
The type of music you make borrows on
codes and conventions that define the sub-
section of music.
What are they?
