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10/15/2011

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Term
Intensity
Definition
"deeply felt" profound, or tending to feel deeply
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Paradox of intensity
Definition
feeling about music; impossible to express; but we try to anyway
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5 modes of communication
Definition
Linguistics; Socio-gestral ; iconic; logico-math; musical
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Anthropological and Sociological
Definition
two approaches to popular music
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Anthropological approach to pop music
Definition
The approach is participant observation. Cannot make judgement until observed. Ethnography,
describe what you observe - reflexivity , mindfulness, awareness of assumption and biases; limited generalization
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Sociological approach to popular music
Definition
Materialism, matter take priority over mind- Marxism - abstract
- cultural industry
- textualism
- meaningless exotica
- moral outrage
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Sophists
Definition
Traveling teachers that gave speeches, they have great memories, their speeches were like advertisements for their service
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Three Basic Truths
Definition
the contingency of language ( language is dynamic, it changes)
- Language is constitutive or reality ( reality is meaningful)
- Language is differential ( meanings of different words, can't understand yes without understanding no)
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Rhetoric
Definition
The study of how signs and symbols (representation) influence people to do and think things that they would otherwise not ordinarily do or think
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Kirschner on the study of popular music also the things that make rock "rock"
Definition
Specificity
textual mobility
amateurism
spatial mobility
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Cosmopolitan ethnography
Definition
escapes localized uniformity by mapping the "motion of music making" across multiple regions,abstract and geographical
- difficult abstract way of thinking of popular music
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Intertextuality
Definition
Texts between texts
- idea that no one text is desecrate but rather immediately cues to another text
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Context
Definition
A set of significant symbolic events, musical and music related, that occur together in the perception of a listener and that function to frame listening experiences
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Concept map
Definition
way of explaining what goes on in people's head
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Semiotics
Definition
Study of signs
Structuralism
Relations: connection between two objects
Structures: when relations combine, collection of relations
Systems: collections of structures
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Unit of semiotics = sign
Definition
Sign comprised of two halves:
signifier: representation of the concept; the words (diet coke)
Signified: concept ( the image of te diet coke in your head)
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Adjectival codes
Definition
a cluster of key adjectives that consistently reappear in the discussion of music or genres
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Canonization
Definition
band with unique sound they make up their own sort of genre; still a genre just a different kind
Term
Karl Marx
Definition
developed idea of communism, later known as socialism
known for:
- revolutionary politics
- and methods fo thinking
Term
Dialects
Definition
(Marx) systematic way of understanding culture
- back and forth thinking, among parts and wholes
- also back and forth thinking to get ultimate truth
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Hegel
Definition
changed the meaning of dialects to a logic
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Hegel's views
Definition
- human reality is premised on a logic of dialectic
- affirmative force = thesis
- negative force = anti thesis
- "mind before matter"
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Marx
Definition
labor is the most important kind of mediation
- a borad sense of labor which is both physical and mental
(theorist)
Term
Alienation
Definition
the way in which people are disconnected from the system
* marx thought capitalism thrived from this
Term
Origin of Political economy
Definition
Adam smith
- a bad economic system
- civil society
- commerce and liberty
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Civil society
Definition
protected private interests of people
* depended on interplay of commerce and liberty
* only unlimited commerce would maximize prosperity
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Liberty
Definition
- free from restriction or control
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Positive liberty
Definition
right to do what you want to do
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negative liberty
Definition
freedom to be left alone
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absolute liberty
Definition
right to do what you want to, an to be left alone
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relations of productions
Definition
relationships of power in an institution
- hierarchical relations among people in an organization
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symbolic value
Definition
the magic element of value: increase transaction value by making the object scarce
Term
Political economy in media studies
Definition
the study of how political or ideological logics influence economic production
- Circuit of Capital: production, distribution, and consumption
Term
Ideology
Definition
collective beliefs; attitudes and values of a given group of people
- common sense
Term
BASE
Definition
- infrastructure
- refers to the material arrangement of society
- natural resource
- most resources belong to private enterprises
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Superstructure
Definition
- culture
- an expression of the base
Term
The culture Industry
Definition
the idea that our culture is manufactured for us; we do not create it, capitalism does
Term
MATULA
Definition
One should focus on the interplay of text and context
- to understand the rhetoric of music, we should focus on the interplay of text and context.
(theorist)
Term
BARTHES
Definition
wrote about The Grain of Voice
- something that we can point to in music that gets us out of the tyranny of the adjective
(theorist)
Term
Jouissance
Definition
(Barthes)
- enjoyment
- connotation of orgasm
- feeling beyond the language to represent pleasurable pain
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Grain
Definition
where language and body meet
- the body speaking the mother's tongue
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The totality
Definition
The biggest context for thinking about any commodity
- the big picture approach
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Fetishism
Definition
symbolic value
- magical powers to an object that in and of itself is not magic
- principle means by which alienation occurs
- obscures the labor history
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Political economy
Definition
sociological or material approach to study of mass media
- focus on industry
- focus on production, not consumption
Term
Smith
Definition
Civil Society is self correcting through:
- competition
- greatest good for the greatest number
- the hidden hand
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Ontology of music
Definition
(attali) Conception of noise
- noise is music before it becomes music
- noise is music before it is recognized as such, once it is recognized it is no longer noise
- resists categories of meaning
Term
Ritual (genealogy)
Definition
music is inseparable from everyday life, it is living
- no concept of music or art
- ecstatic
Term
Sacrifice (genealogy)
Definition
Music represented as music
- musical notation
- music becomes autonomous
- absolute music
Term
Repetition (genealogy)
Definition
technology (of musical notation allows one to represent sound on a page)
- portability
-sheet music
- recording
Term
Composition (genealogy)
Definition
Highly individualistic
- making music for self
- not yet realized
Term
Regressive listening
Definition
Adorno: culture industry teaches us how to listen by an appeal to basic pleasure
- listen for the chorus
- infancy
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Term
Anthonio Gramsci
Definition
-Socialism requires democracy
- academics abet the ruling class
- hegemony
Term
Hegemony
Definition
the ability of the ruling class to impose its ideology on the subclasses without force
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Louis Althusser
Definition
Posthumanist (post marxist)
- no direct relationship between thebase and the superstructure
- rejections of humanism
- rejected intention
- rejected determinism
- interpellation
Term
INTERPELLATION
Definition
understanding of how we assume ideologies
- how it becomes common sense
Term
Overdetermination
Definition
Hailed by ISA's (ideological state apparatuses)
- you are the sum total of your ideologies
- Althusser thought ideologies are who you are, content of our subjectivity
Term
Dick Hebdige
Definition
wants to combine sociological and anthropological approaches.
- culture
-hegemony
-style as resistance
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