Week 9 - Genre as Coordination Among Producers

Question 1

Genre

Answer 1

a set of shared expectations about art

Question 2

How does Howard Becker illustrate the concept of genre expectations

Answer 2

Illustrates how strong convention for jazz music make it easy to improvise

Question 3

What do genre expectations coordinate?

Answer 3

coordination and creativity

Question 4

How do genre expectations facilitate creativity?

Answer 4

-rules help artists get started by giving you a guide
-a black page can be very difficult to get started

e.g writing a romance novel

Question 5

How go genre expectations apply to games?

Answer 5

-blackjack has very few rules and, as a result, the game is not very creative
-in contrast, dungeons and dragons has a ton of rules and is very creative

Question 6

Genre expectations applied to the arts

Answer 6

For example, while there are many rom com movies, they can have a great variety

e.g. Nora Ephron vs Woody Allen vs 50 rom coms that also focused on social class