Genre

Question 1

What is a genre?

Answer 1

A type or style of music

Question 2

What defines genre in western music?

Answer 2

Instrument and voices (forces)
Formal patterns
Relationship to other media

Question 3

What helps to define general genre?

Answer 3

Time and place
Relation to wider culture
Key characteristics

Question 4

What is a meta genre?

Answer 4

A large encompassing genre that cover money genres

Question 5

What are the main meta genres?

Answer 5

Classical, popular, folk

Question 6

Who is at the forefront of the study of popular music?

Answer 6

Phillip Tagg

Question 7

In a classical discourse what is the ideal?

Answer 7

Cultural transcendence, a means of rising above the everyday

Question 8

What is the ideal discourse of folk?

Answer 8

Integration, placement within a society or trend

Question 9

Who came up with the discourses of wester music?

Answer 9

Simon Frith

Question 10

What is the ideal pop discourse?

Answer 10

Fun, entertainment, routine pleasures

Question 11

According to Middleton when was the first moment of radical change?

Answer 11

The bourgeois revolution marked by complex and overt class struggle

Question 12

According to Middleton what was the second situational change?

Answer 12

Moment of mass culture, jazz Tin Pan Alley

Question 13

According to middleton what is the 3rd radical situation change?

Answer 13

Advent of popular music, music less tied to established class roles and open to everybody

Question 14

What are the two cultural metaphors of music?

Answer 14

Temporal and spatial

Question 15

What makes folks temporal structure?

Answer 15

The narrative capacity to tell stories

Question 16

What are the two main ways of categorising world music?

Answer 16

As a genre of mass mediated music that distinguishes itself from mainstream

As those musics outside the view of western culture, only studied my ethnomusicologists

Question 17

What is the axiomatic triangle?

Answer 17

A way to classify the meta genres of Folk pop and art?

Question 18

Which meta genre is produced by professionals?

Answer 18

Art and pop

Question 19

Which meta genre achieves mass distribution?

Answer 19

Pop

Question 20

Which meta genre has oral transmission, monetary independence and a nomadic nature?

Answer 20

Folk

Question 21

Which meta genre is public funded, has musical notation and can be described as agrarian or industrial

Answer 21

Art

Question 22

Which meta genre has recorded sound, free enterprise, and based in an industrial setting?

Answer 22

Pop

Question 23

Which meta genre has written theory?

Answer 23

Art

Question 24

Which meta genre has anonymous composers?

Answer 24

Folk

Question 25

Who created the axiomatic triangle?

Answer 25

Tagg

Question 26

Who argued hat genre was a useless concept?

Answer 26

Croce and Adorno

Question 27

Who said each work should be considered individually

Answer 27

Osbourne

Question 28

What does Derrida argue?

Answer 28

That genre is not redundant but are not fixed

Question 29

What does Jauss’s horizon of expectations suggest?

Answer 29

The genre is determined by the consumer of the art

Question 30

According to Brackett what does every work of art redefine?

Answer 30

The borders of a genre

Question 31

Who was the founder of the olympics?

Answer 31

Baron Pierre Du Coubertin

Question 32

What the Olympic Games presented as?

Answer 32

Social political identity, incorporated art with sports

Question 33

What was central to the astheics of the olympics?

Answer 33

Music, through the concept of l eurhythemie a form of asthetic beauty

Question 34

Where was the Olympus set?

Answer 34

A round stadium setting

Question 35

How didn coubertin hide he sound?

Answer 35

Hidden orchestras behind large curtains

Question 36

Where was the olympics held in 1936?

Answer 36

Berlin