Lecture 1: Sources and Centres of Pop Music Flashcards
1
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What are the three focuses of Music 103?
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History, People and Songs, Analysis
2
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How to examine popular music?
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Perspectives:
-theme of identity
-historical setting
-technological advancement
-music as a business
3
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Historical context
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- centres and peripheries
- popular music comes from - european american, african american, latin american
4
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Themes of identity
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- race/ethnicity
- gender/sexuality
- class/community
- industry/technology
5
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Who is the centre
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- mainstream
- NY, LA, Nashville
- large, affluent cities
- white/protestant
6
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Who is the periphery?
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- minorities
- smaller institutions/people
- outcasts
7
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European american stream
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- ballads (1700s)
- dances
- immigrant folk music
- gospel music (1850s)
8
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Ballads
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- european american stream
- strophic
- broadsides - pleasure gardens
- first real mainstream american genre
9
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strophic form
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- verses
- tells a story
- simple melodies/lyrics
- romantic themes
10
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Ballad operas
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- simple story connected with popular sounding songs
- challenged italian opera
11
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Broadsides
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- single printed sheets of paper with ballads
- either passed down ballads or brand new compositions
- orally transmitted then published and distributed by ballad mongers
- no melody, only lyrics. there would be a tune name (eg. sung to the tune. of____)
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When and where did ballads originate
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england in the 1700s
13
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example of a ballad
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barbary allen
14
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dances
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- european stream
- modeled on european dance styles (line dancing, couple dancing)
15
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immigrant folk music
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- european stream
- french, jewish, irish, german, polish, etc.
- brought music from their culture
