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What is art?

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Subjective - was influenced by feeling or emotion and has meaning to viewer that is personal

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What did Aristotle say about art?

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Art is imitation = naturally occurring since childhood as its how children learn
*reason to create the art

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If Aristotle believed art came from imitation what did his pupil Plato think?

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The opposite that art shaped a person

*art can create the idea

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What was invented that changed the perspective of art?

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Cameras

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When was David Hume around?

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1700

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What did David Hume believe defined what art is?

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If you find it beautiful/pleasing to your senses then it can be considered art

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What did David Hume believe about taste?

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Taste is informed by culture therefore a limited culture limits a person’s taste

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What does David Hume think about the “simple” person?

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Everyone at their current state = no work is received

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Who is Andy Warhol?

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Invented “pop” art in the 1960’s

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Who was Arthur Danto?

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An art critic

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What did Danto say about Warhol’s work?

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Warhol placed his “pop” art in an art exhibit - Danto said art was dead after seeing it

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Why did Danto believe art was dead after seeing Warhol’s work?

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Art needs the “art world” = an environment that defines what art is

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What does Danto believe what art is?

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If a person cares about it enough to write about it or put it in a museum (etc) then it is art

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What are the 2 categories that art falls into?

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1- aesthetics

2- philosophy

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Explain aesthetics as a category that art falls under

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Beauty of music - consideration of the way in which things appear to the sense

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Explain philosophy as a category that art falls under

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What can be counted as art - is an inquiry into what distinguishes art objects from other things in the world

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What did Plato call inspiration?

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Mimesis

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Who said “sentimentality determines whether a particular object is beautiful and therefore is considered art”? What do they mean?

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David Hume - the fact that you are affected by the something emotionally causes you to find it beautiful and therefore you call it art

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Expand on what is Arthur Danto’s “art world”

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An organized arena where art is created = school, museum, studio etc

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What does Danto’s “art world” allow?

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Allowed the inclusion on Warhol’s “pop” art = art that cannot be defined

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Who had the imitation theory? 2

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Aristotle and Plato

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Who had the reality theory? 2

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Hume and Danto

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Who is Scott McLeod?

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A current art thinker

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What does chapter 7 of McLeod’s comic state?

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“Everything that isn’t a part of reproduction of survival is art”

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What does McLeod believe art is?

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An expression of our identity

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What are McLeod’s 6 steps of art?

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1- idea/purpose
2- form
3- idiom 
4- structure 
5- craft
6- surface
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Expand on McLeod’s 6 steps (aka what they mean)

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1- idea = works "content"
2- form = what form will it take
3- idiom = genre it fits in
4- structure = how to compose the work 
5- craft = apply skills to get job done 
6- surface = superficial exposure to world
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Who was the face of the civil rights movement?

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Martin Luther King

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What did MLK believe in?

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Non-violence protest at all costs

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What was the bus boycott?

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black people refused to ride the bus - lasted over a year and ended in nonsegregated buses

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What was the sit-in protest?

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Blacks sat at the counter which was for whites only and waited to be served

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Who was George Wallace?

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Governor of Alabama - once said “segregation today, tomorrow and always”

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Who was Bull Conner?

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Commissioner of public safety in Birmingham Alabama during the civil rights movement

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What became the theme song of the civil rights movement?

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we shall overcome

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What happened so towards the end of the civil rights movement?

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Some people (mainly university students) turned into roots of the black panther party = turned towards violence

36
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What song started the social change for lynching?

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Strange fruit by Billy Holiday

37
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Who wrote strange fruit?

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Abel Meoropol - but it was a poem called bitter fruit

38
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How did Billy Holiday perform Strange Fruit?

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Performed last, no lights but a single spot light on her (in the 1936/37)

39
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When was strange fruit recorded?

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1939 and became #1 hit

40
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Labor movement - explain the difference between generalized and industrialized unionism

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General = represented all workers in same industry (no matter job or skill in that industry) 
Industrial = sorted workers into individual crafts
41
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Labor union - name a government official act and explain how it affected labor unions (name, year and 2 rules) #1

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Wagner act (1935)

  • allowed legal right of most workers to organize or join unions
  • allowed to bargain collectively with their employers
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Labor union - name a government official act and explain how it affected labor unions (name, year and 2 rules) #2

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Traft-Hartley act (1947) amendment to Wagner act

  • permitted union shops but only where state law allowed
  • give 60 days notice of a strike
  • 80 day federal injection if threatened national health/safety
  • union officers deny under oath any communist affiliations
43
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What where union shops?

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Place of work for nonunion but then had to join Union after getting work

44
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What is a federal injunction?

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Court order that compels party to do or refrain from specific acts

45
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Labor movement - what affects did the labor movement have on today’s society? Name 3

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1- 40 hr work weeks 
2- 8 hr days 
3- safe working conditions 
4- minimum wage
5- health insurance 
6- retirement plans
46
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Anti-government black lives matter - Who created black lives matter movement?

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Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi

47
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Anti-government black lives matter - what song was the anthem for black lives matter?

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Alright by Kendrick Lamar

48
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Anti-government black lives matter - what event sparked the need of creating the black lives matter movement?

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George Zimmerman who shot Trayvon Martin

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Black power movement - Was born out of frustration with what?

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Lack of progress with the civil rights movement due to its non-violent approach

50
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Black power movement - who was considered the leader of the black power movement?

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Stokely Carmicheal

51
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Black power movement - what was the name of the militant arm of the black power movement?

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The black panther party

52
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LGBTQ rights - What does the rainbow flag symbolize today?

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Pride, hope and diversity

53
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LGBTQ rights - in 1978 what important LGBTQ organization was created?

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The international lesbian and gay association

54
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LGBTQ rights - name 3 of the 5 characters that the Village people represented in the song YMCA?

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  • Indian
  • cop
  • biker
  • soldiers
  • construction worker
55
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The civil rights movement - Who did the famous “I have a dream” speech and what event was it associated with?

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Martin Luther King - at the march on Washington

56
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The civil rights movement - what is the “black national anthem” called and who wrote it?

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“Lift every voice and sing” by James Weldon Johnson

57
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The civil rights movement - why did Gil Scott-Heron criticize the student for a democratic society (SDS)?

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He felt they were unable to understand what it was truly like to be a minority in America

58
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The sexual revolution - What was the result of the creation of the pill for young and single women?

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Took their sexuality into their own hands

59
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The sexual revolution - the sexual revolution brought light to which sexual attitudes?

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Both genders, homosexuality, premarital sexuality and feminism

60
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The sexual revolution - what was the significance of the song “I was born this way”?

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It was the first gay liberation dance club hit

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The feminist movement - Who was the original artist of RESPECT?

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Otis Redding

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The feminist movement - what was deemed to be ther first feminist song?

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Rights of women by anonymous

63
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The feminist movement - what were the dates of the 3 waves of feminism?

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1- 1830-1900
2- 1960-1980
3- 1990-present

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Anti-Vietnam - what amendment to the US constitution came after the war and related to the age of soldiers who were drifters to serve in Vietnam?

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in 1971 voting age was changed from 21 to 18

Some soldiers drafted to serve in Vietnam were younger than the voting age prior to this change

65
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Anti-Vietnam - what deadly chemical was found in agent orange?

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TCDD - dioxin compound that caused many deformities in people and births after it was spread

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Anti-Vietnam - name a song that relates to the Vietnam war and it’s link to the history of the anti-Vietnam war movement

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Orange Crush by REM

Highlights the chemical agent orange which was the chemical defoliant used in the Vietnam war

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Music’s Social Powers: explain what the author means by “link between music and “awakening” is not metaphorical” (3 - fiduciary, emotions)

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  • It is not symbolic but real
  • In a way that involves trust between the giving and receiving party
  • Calculated with emotions when it is developed so is studied as if alive
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Music’s Social Powers: what is an agent?

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A person who has it in them to make a change and has the feelings needed to want to make a change

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Music’s Social Powers: what doesn’t an agent do?

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They don’t force their actions of their free-will or force their state of wanting to learn more

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Music’s Social Powers: what is the change an agent wants?

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Changes in beauty and aesthetics or producing these to change other’s lives

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Music’s Social Powers: what is social agency?

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The collective community of artists that strive to create change by having the capacity and attitude to want the change

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Music’s Social Powers: what is a traditional society?

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Musical use is both secular (non-sacred) and customary in a community/collective practice = it is for everyone

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Music’s Social Powers: what is modern societies?

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Music for what is tasteful and valued in life and had a special liking because it goes with what society likes = private

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Music’s Social Powers: how did the erosion of human subjectivity and activity happen?

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By logical processes due to reasonable minds

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Music’s Social Powers: did erosion to of human subjectivity and activity actually happen?

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No, the reasonable minds are new generation of people who now value different things than people in the past

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Music’s Social Powers: what is an example of erosion to human subjectivity and activity?

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Music in movies are still masterpieces though they maybe more “pop” than classic as generation has changed

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Music’s Social Powers: first way on which music is employed as an ordering device in social life within modern society

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Retail outlets = conventional notion of musical energy levels at different times of the day/week/month

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Music’s Social Powers: second way on which music is employed as an ordering device in social life within modern society

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Transportation use Vivaldi, Mozart and Delius to smooth irritated travelers

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Music’s Social Powers: third way on which music is employed as an ordering device in social life within modern society

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Person using selective music at a particular time of day or for a particular task

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Music’s Social Powers: What was the author’s idea to Beethoven’s reaction to people talking through his music?

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Western music has lost it’s essence = it is restricted with the necessities to make it good music

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Music’s Social Powers: why is western music created today?

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now it’s created with the idea to fascinate its listeners instead of the listeners waning to hear it

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Music’s Social Powers: do I agree the author’s idea of what western music has turned into?

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Yes - today is all about what sounds good to sell the most instead of it being about the artist’s feeling and people can “like it or lump it”

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Music’s Social Powers: music is a way of happening is about what?

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Music isn’t about a practical thing but a collective idea and communicated this through word choice, sounds, pitch, tempo Etc = creates environments and feelings

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Music’s Social Powers: what is embodied awareness?

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Physical form of doing something with the music to get a person animated/enlisted in the music = stays with you - emotional and physical

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Music’s Social Powers: what is an example of embodied awareness?

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Musical therapy

86
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Music’s Social Powers: what is latching?

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The same as embodied awareness but happens in the here and now = just physically moved into dancing

87
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Music’s Social Powers: what are 2 examples of latching?

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Toe tapping and finger snapping

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