Songs

Question 1

Lee Cooper

Answer 1

Importance to teach music in class.
Especially for traditional music cultures eg, black students.
Music is part of their identity and defines them.
It is part of their heritage and music can cover heritage that is not in traditional textual sources.
Can look at singer’s biography of their life to see meaning/attitudes towards themes/events.

Question 2

S Gilbert

Answer 2

Can represent/reconstruct historical events.
Can also look at the practice of music and its social effects.
Music can help with memory/promote particular understanding of the past.

Question 3

T Thacker

Answer 3

Can be used with literary sources & visual images.
Postmodernism inspired this study.
Music expresses feelings.

Question 4

David Bally

Answer 4

Everyone can identify music and music can act as mirror of society.

Question 5

Music pros

Answer 5

Can reveal hidden social groups
Can show new perspectives of past
Music can help memory
Can show feelings and economic/political/social situation etc
can show moral messages and values (can be through the actual beats)
can show technical advances in music making and in instruments and listening - streaming).
can show nature of music industry and shift in ownership/competition.
can show us the city hotspots for music

Question 6

music cons

Answer 6

not all music may have its composition details
plagiarism is now a major issue
bias/one perspective from singer/producer
a lot of dialect difference now

Question 7

(Case Study) S Gilbert - Nazism Songs in Ghettos and Concentration Camps

Answer 7

Important as many official documents were destroyed
Prisoners weren’t documented well anyway
Music was open to anyone and could be more easily hidden from Nazis
Most text material was from Nazis so could’ve been propaganda

But music that has been released does not say who wrote it or include dates - loose information