MUSC215 midterm 1

Intermediary action referring to the practices of all the who intervene as popular music is produced, distributed and consumed

The predominant influence of a political or cultural force over another

resisting the influences of a political or cultural force that has hegemony

Made phonograph, wax cylinders, and tinfoil phonographs. Installed in talking dolls at first, eventually made Edison records

Made flat disc in 1901, can hold 3 minutes of music. Founder of Victor talking machine company

The Edison Company (Thomas Edison), Columbia Records (Edward Easton), Victor Talking Machine Company(Emile Berliner)

• First installed in Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco, 1889

• Became popular and made its way to urban public places

• military marches and vaudeville tunes

• hymn

Improved on sound appearance and genres, liker furniture. Bring music into your home, advertised as literally bringing stars into homes from 1900s and today

Blackface, making fun of black people's culture. First American musical and theatrical entertainment (most popular).

Song and character created by Thomas Dartmouth Rice. Morphed into gross stereotypes(black people are lazy, goofy, dimwitted, untrustworthy and threatening).

Indie label in NYC. Had the first black blues vocalist (Mamie Smith) and first commercially successful "hillbilly" recording. However, the company got boycott threats and both genres were discriminated against, major labels refused to work with them. Eventually was sold to Columbia records

undermine the power and authority of (an established system or institution)

The art of practice of narration; the representation in art of an event or story

• Todd Storz and Jukeboxes

• same hits in frequent rotation

• Ads, Jingles, promotions, rapid-fire pattern

Promoted himself as a bringer of black music to white youth. Youth became known as teenagers DJ of te Moondog show. Called R&B rock n roll, making it somewhat safer to listen to

Created by Edwin Armstrong to solve the problem of AM (static). Was rejected but was experimented on. It became reserved for noncommercial use (88.1-91.9 MHZ) and known as antiestablishment technology.

• Created by Lewis Hill, 1949

• Educational, multicultural, listener-supported

• non-commercial station

• -5 stations nationwide

-Bob Fass, WBAI (Pacifica station NY) "The Godfather of Freeform"

-Radio unnameable (spontaneous and unformatted

-Call-ins (invented)

National Public Radio: wanted to educated, informed and engaged citizens. Does news, cultural program and information. Aimed at an educated audience and hosts speak gentle, are focused and calm, emphasizes on cultural diversity. Ex: Terry Gross from Fresh Air

A radio station licensed to a college or university that is generally run by and for students, and tends to feature alternative music programming

Presentational: 1 group of people prepare and provide music for an audience who don't participate in making the music/dancing

Participatory performance: No artist/audience distinction, only participants and potential participants performing different roles

High fidelity: The making of recording that are intended to index or be iconic of live sounds/performance.

Studio audio art: The creation/manipulation of sounds in a studio or computer to create a recorded art object

the tendency to seek distraction and relief from unpleasant realities, especially by seeking entertainment or engaging in fantasy.

Russian electrical engineers, made the aetherphone

Robert Moog invented the Moog synthesizer, it was the first to use a piano-style keyboard

Refers to electronic music and social dancing. Origin: African America, Latin Caribbean, queer nightlife in NYC

Chicago late 1970s/80. Had disco, soul, rock, r&b, drum machines and synthesizers.

Underground, often illegal after hours dance parties, 1980s interface between tech and drugs, wanted to create a trance (shift in conscious)

electronic dance music- raves were turned into festivals. Event based (peace, love, unity, and respect).

gender ideologies are most often codified as religious, moral or legal system that justify relations between genders.

the capacity of individuals to act independently and to make their own free choices

a collection of movements and ideologies aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights for women

Seneca Falls convention 1848; suffrage, property rights, education, the 19th Amendment. UMD admits women in 1916

Issues: discrimination, domestic violence, reproductive rights. Birth control pills were introduced in 1960 (need permission from your husband and need to be married.)

"Media saturated world." Started with Rebecca Walker, feminism is not diverse. Issue: Diversity/intersectionality, reproductive rights, beauty standards, harassment and assault, and lgbtq communities

hatred, dislike, mistrust of women

Discrimination against women

having both female and male characteristics

the study of how different identity categories interact and affect one another, particularly how patterns of discrimination overlap

-Erosion of gender binary

-New categories of gender and sexual identities

-Non-binary, transgender, cisgender

-LGBTQIA+

Borrowed from Japan. Have production companies scout people, train, and commodification

More for women, talks about family issues, love relationships, romance>sex, it aims at the female gaze.

Started with a Kdrama (Winter Sonata), Actor, Bae Yong-Joon played a character who is caring, sensitive, vulnerable while being physically strong (feminine/masculine)

kpop spreads beyond East Asia

Either flower boy(fair skin, delicate features, lean, toned, cute, playful, androngynous) or a beast(tough, wild, macho, serious) Assumed heterosexual

Massive, passionate, and organized (power)

Fantasy and intimacy (assumed het.), flower boy ideal, male beauty. No dating or public scandals. They’re accessible.

Aegyo(cute), innocent, pure, childlike or sexy, provocative, feminine fatale and womanly. “barbie doll aesthetic”: long thin shapely legs, prominent breasts, flawless skin, silky hair and heterosexual.

Now a major mediator of beauty standards. Highest rate of cosmetic surgery per capita, have “nip-and-tuck” tourism and appearance affects social status and job prospects.

Goofy, nerdy, awkward, mysterious, exotic and strange

Overachieving, meek, “china doll”: timid, submissive or “dragon lady”: hypersexualized villain. Also fetishized.

First network program to feature songs ranked by popularity

Latest R&B records, black cultural traditions( story telling, speaking in rhythm and rhyme and improvisation.) Also had personality DJs.

London born, Brooklyn based DJ of Punjabi Indian heritage. Started “basement Bhangra” parties in NY. Became known as ambassador of Bhangra. Now teaches at NYU

English musician and mathematician, composer of electronic music. Worked for BBC radiophonic workshop and electronic realization of Doctor Who theme.

Guy Manuel de Homom- Christo and Thomas Bangaller Parian. Pioneered modern EDM, “hallucinating pop stagecraft,” sci-fi glam and anonymous icons.

Florian Schneider & Ralf Hutter, “power station.” Pioneers of Krautrock, purely tech and music is minimalist, robotic, and futuristic.

Make believe ballroom opening- Rise of the DJ, he didn’t sound like he was from a certain region from America, but a guy from nowhere. Reinforced imagined communities.

“Questa o quella” -Considered as good music since it’s opera/classical and was used as advertisement of Victor’s phonograph (red label), promoting that he’s singing as if he’s in your living room

Swing and sway- Spoke in African American dialect rather than trying to sound white, played R&B music, spoke in rhythm and rhyme, narrative included improvisation and storytelling, and turned DJing into a performance.

“Express yourself,” genre: pop. Challenges traditional gender roles by wearing pants, hip thrust, taking up space un stage, flexing her arm muscles, sexual dominance over men and the lyrics are about expressing yourself.