This document provides an overview of popular music theory, discussing several approaches and issues. It introduces topics like postmodernism and popular music, discussing how records can be seen as "simulacrums" and videos reinforce inauthentic performances. It also covers social class and popular music, summarizing Paul Willis' view that popular music expresses working class youth culture and challenges the idea that some art forms are more valid than others. The document notes this view has been criticized for being too sentimental and ignoring articulate middle class audiences.
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find an online recording of three primary forms of modern music: folk music, popular music and art music (which represents "high culture" in this course). While each of these differs in terms of form, audience, and technology used for recording and transmission, all three have a fundamental role in modern American culture.
Students are expected to comprehend the essential characteristics of each of these three musical forms, find an example of each form, and briefly discuss (in roughly 75 words per example) why each example is an appropriate representation of the musical form.
To be clear, you are
required to accomplish the following
:
Go on the Web and
find examples
of folk music, art (classical) music and popular music.
Your post should contain hyperlinks to your examples and
three 75-word explanations as to why you feel they fit the forms mentioned
. Since these explanations include why the song is an example of the type of music assigned to it, mention some of the characteristics associated with each form.
Here are some abbreviated characteristics of each music form, as described in Oxford Music Online, which contains more lengthy descriptions (it is found within the
CSU-Chico library’s Databases A-Z
).
Art Music
“The story of American art music chronicles the rise of the composer in the United States. At no time have such composers controlled or dominated American concert life, however. Their historical role has been to take Old World practices as a starting point and to complement repertories that are chiefly European with works of their own. Although some 20th-century American composers have opened up fresh artistic territory, art music in America, even into the later years of the 20th century, has continued to revolve around the performance of European classics.”
Folk Music
“This concept has been defined and developed in multiple ways by collectors, scholars and practitioners, within different geographical locations and in different historical periods. Widely used in Europe and the Americas, it has been used both covertly and overtly in the construction and negation of identities in relation to class, nation or ethnicity and continues to be the source of controversy and heated debate. At its root lie questions about the identity and identification of the ‘folk’, the delimitation of musical repertories, how these repertories are transmitted and the assessment of sounds.”
Popular Music
“A common approach to defining popular music is to link popularity with scale of activity. Usually this is measured in terms of consumption, for example by counting sales of sheet music or recordings. Another common approach is to link popularity with means of dissemination, and particularly with the development and role of mass media. It is true that the history of popular music is intimately connected with the technologies of mass distribution (print, recording, radio, film etc.); yet a piece that could be described as ‘popular mus.
Popular culture is the set of practices, beliefs, and objects that embody the most broadly shared meanings of a social system. It includes media objects, entertainment and leisure, fashion and trends, and linguistic conventions, among other things.
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2. Contents
• Intro to Popular Music Theory
• Postmodernism and Popular Music
• Social Class and Popular Music
• Age and Popular Music
• Gender and Popular Music
• Post-modern Approaches
4. Intro to Popular Music Theory
Theory underpinning the study of popular music is particularly
wide-ranging, incorporating aspects of Musicology - Media
Studies - Cultural Studies - Gender Studies –History – Economics
– Literary Studies
5. Intro to Popular Music Theory
Traditional musicologists have analysed the composition
of popular music as if it were a classical composition.
Howard Goodall, for example compares the Beatles and
Mozart.
6. Intro to Popular Music Theory
This approach has been criticised by some for
neglecting the ‘performative’ and ‘improvisational’
qualities of popular music.
Jazz Improvisation Kiss
7. Intro to Popular Music Theory
In Look! Hear! The uneasy relationship of music and television
(2002) Simon Frith argues that the defining feature of popular
music is its televisual aesthetic.
8. Intro to Popular Music Theory
The systematic and scientific study of society and societal behaviour.
The other side of this are the approaches emanating from the
social sciences, which are often labelled the ‘sociology of rock’.
Simon Frith, The Sociology of Rock, 1978
Punk 77.
9. Intro to Popular Music Theory
Theorist have tended to focus on issues to do with audiences of popular
music and the representation of performers.
Age, Race Sex and Class
10. Intro to Popular Music Theory
Emanating from this is a school of Media and Cultural Theory
known as ‘Madonna Studies’. Influenced by the ‘Queer Theory’
and the work of Foucault Madonna is seen as exemplifying
Feminist critiques – particular those of Judith Butler.
Madonna - Open Up Your heart
11. Intro to Popular Music Theory
“Is Madonna a glamorized sex doll or the queen of
parodic critique?”.
Pamela Robertson - Guilty Pleasures Feminist Camp from
Mae West to Madonna (1996)
12. Intro to Popular Music Theory
Criticisms of this approach say that it ignores the musical and
aesthetic qualities that make popular music distinct from other
media texts.
This raises the question have we come full circle?
14. Popular Music and Postmodernism
Postmodernism:
Faith in grand narrative has collapsed (science, religion, history,
progress)
Identity is fluid – sense of self not fixed
Consumerism is a creative endeavour in which the self is
constructed.
No distinction between the real and the simulated.
Convergence of Information Technology and Society.
One of the key theoretical issues in popular music studies is
that of post-modernism.
15. Popular Music and Postmodernism
Records: the
ultimate
simulacrums?
Some argue that musical recordings are the epitome of the post-modern
text because they are copies without originals
(simulacrums).
1930s Recording Studio:Postmodern?
CDS: Less authentic than vinyl?
16. Popular Music and Postmodernism
The music video re-enforces this in its depiction of inauthentic
performances and abstract visuals.
Queen Robert Palmer
17. Popular Music and Postmodernism
Others have tried to identify key moments in the history of popular
music when it seemed to embody post-modern cultural practice
e.g. the advent of sampling in the 1980s.
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19. Paul Willis
A Social Theory for the Social Meaning of Pop
(1973)
20. Popular Music and Social Class
Paul Willis views popular music culture as an authentic
expression of working class youth.
21. Popular Music and Social Class
High Culture
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Low Culture
Willis challenges received thinking that certain art forms are
more valid than others i.e. classical music.
22. Popular Music and Social Class
He views popular music as a new form of media literacy for
groups traditionally marginalized.
23. Popular Music and Social Class
“(T)he vast majority of young people involved with pop
music are working class, and share along with the
rest of their class, an inability to articulate their
meanings in an abstract verbal manner”.
Willis, Paul. E, A Theory for the Social Meaning of Pop, journal (Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, Birmingham), p.3.
Is abstract verbal communication important in pop music? Think
of well known songs that actually use very simplistic words or
indeed nonsense words or phrases.
The Beatles Oasis
24. Popular Music and Social Class
Criticism: This is a rather sentimental and some might
say patronising view of audiences. Also ignores the
middle class articulate demographic – many popular
music stars, for example, are college graduates.
Roxy Music David Bowie
