Music Flashcards
in von eschen and Aidi what is the force channelling pop culture? (Pres)
-US imperialism
What does Gramsci suggest one kind of new intellectual necessary for economic functions of capitalism is? (pres)
-the organiser of new culture
popular culture is produce for one of two purposes , which? (pres)
-to support some form of social hegemony or not
What does authenticity presume (pres)
-some true relationship beteen the art produced and the genre or culture it is said to represent
Who is an intellectual? (Gramsci)
-all men, but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals
Why would some suggest that the pursuit of any unifying dynamic or underlying structure of feeling in contemporary black cultures is misplaced? (Gilroy)
-as black popularity is socially and historically constructed
why is it not pointless to locate cultural practises, motifs or political agendas that might connect the divided black of new world and europe with each other? (Gilroy)
weighting the similarities and differences between black cultures remains an important element of some urgent concerns
How did the music of the black atlantic world relate to british blacks? (Gilroy)
-they seized on it and sought to adapt to new circumstances
How did the civil rights movement and black power appear in Britain? (Gilroy)
detached from original ethnic markers and historical origin
-through a circulatory system that gave central place to the musics that had both informed nd recorded black struggles in other places
what has the retreat from a politically constructed notion of racial solidarity initiated?
a compensatory recovery of narrowly ethnic culture and identity
what was the conflict between Wynton Marsalis and Miles Davis ?(Gilroy)
- former insists that jazz provides an essential repository for wider black cultural values
- later insisted upon prioritizing the restless creative energies that can keep the corresive process of reification and commodification at bay
what is a conflict referenced by gilroy?(Gilroy)
-between those who see music as the primary means to critically explore and politically reproduced the necessary ethnic essence of blackness and those who would dispute the existence of any such unifying organic phenomenon
What is the John ‘dizzy’ gillespie example? (Von Eschen)
-JDG went on government sponsored jazz tour of ME with aid of president’s emegency fund by Dwight D.Eisenhower
Why was the prominence of African American jazz artists crucial? (Von Eschen)
-as a cold war weapon
What did US official pursue a self-conscious campaign against? (Von Eschen)
-worldwide critcism of US racism
What role does Nikhil sing describe US policymakers as in? (Von Eschen)
-self-interest role of patron of older imperialism and an agent of specifically capitalist freedoms
What was the Voice of America jazz show and how did the US weaponize it? (Von Eschen)
- jazz show that reached 30 million people in 80 countries in 1955.
- US sought to spread radio ownership, distributing across asia, africa and ME, so people could tune in to defences of US foreign policy along with music
How did the Tunisian regime of Ben Ali react to dissident rappers? (Aidi)
- went after rappers like Psycho M with islamist sympathies
- Arrested rapper ‘el general’ and blacked out his myspace page
How can it be suggested that hip hop did not cause arab spring? (Aidi)
-countries with most vibrant hip hop scenes, Morocco and Algeria have not seen full on revolts
What did Cuba found in 2002? (Aidi)
-Cuban Rap Agency to create a revolutionary hip-hop sound
What was the anti-mosque controversy? and how does it show perception management? (Aidi)
- Tea party v state department liberals on construction of mosque. Bad press
- Imam of Park 51 centre was sent on diplomatic tour of Persian gulf to show moderate perspective to foreign audience of what it is like to be a practising muslim in the US
- tour divided muslims in America
