GENRE WEEK1

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  1. so ensure we should define genre as relating to following
  2. that Jonah content over.
  3. So on one level, a set of formal musical rules
  4. or conventions was tried also a palette of expressive dean
  5. well within those mentioned.
  6. So if we think off voice so vocal so that
  7. in the way in which the sole voice expresses emotion
  8. in a very different way to voices in, say matter.
  9. So this is related not only to musical style, but
  10. what the core emotional, emotional and social convention those there's
  11. a fit between expressive style.
  12. Um, the social Cons.
  13. Jean Marie Close also includes a set of cultural associate.
  14. As we just mentioned, Genre brings with it a whole
  15. set of socially agree.
  16. So, yeah, genres are also related to different institutions, so
  17. those institutions have fundamental effect on how we may and
  18. how it's perceived.
  19. Eso if we think about popular popular music and classical
  20. music as matters, your classical music is very much rooted
  21. in a particular set of institutions.
  22. So the concert hall, the academy, the university it's funded
  23. by our sponsorship from national and regional governments.
  24. Its's all of those institutional frame ing's actually flag it.
  25. What its Cultural Worth Society.
  26. Where is popular music?
  27. It's seen as a more commercial form, which is tied
  28. to specific industrial sectors.
  29. The recording, publishing and live in these different institutional relationships
  30. have a fundament.
  31. How each of the made how they're valued, importantly, economic
  32. value versus actual value, how they reached the market and
  33. how they're understood by their audience.
  34. The institutions are not just a kind of passive thing
  35. that December, they actually impinge on.
  36. It's its's creativity and its meanings.
  37. Genre is also related to different social functions, and again,
  38. something will be you course such as ritual, for instance,
  39. so genres might be related.
  40. Particular religious practices religious music, church ritual in a more
  41. secular sense.
  42. So we can think of, well, dance floors.
  43. Or Giggs is having certain ritualistic elements.
  44. Certain behaviors which which are repeated list so several ritualistic
  45. elements about them, through which audiences forge a collective sense
  46. of identity or they come together to affirm a sense.
  47. So I think identity again is kind of really well,
  48. um, in terms of identity and genres might be expressive
  49. of formations of identities in that genres could be seen
  50. as expressive.
  51. The in terms of the graphic age place nationality, political
  52. or cultural sensibilities.
  53. Um, Jean carry with them those senses.
  54. We identify with jurors as a way of understanding our
  55. own place in the world.
  56. How do we fit into it on how we want
  57. to present ourselves to the world?
  58. This is something to bear in mind when you're doing
  59. The Guardian are which follows this clips I want read
  60. The Guardian Guardian article and think about how is your
  61. into think identity on dhe relationship.
  62. Self on genres is kind of crucial in what's being
  63. put forward.
  64. Eso do this after mhm.
  65. Um, genres could also be related to mood, social interaction
  66. or identification.
  67. So mood if we think about streaming Prince the way
  68. that a platform like Spotify creates playlists according to mood
  69. emotion, the patterns of our daily lives.
  70. When we get up, what time of day it is.
  71. Relax, warning.
  72. Still, um, it's clear that certain genres committee related how
  73. we use music, teach points in our lives on their
  74. function in terms of mood, right memory or, if you
  75. think about contemporary contemporary digital delivers eso lo fi, which
  76. is based around endless streams off lo fi beats which
  77. very deliberately marks itself markets itself as a, um that
  78. music Castillion on music for relax ation.
  79. So again, core part of that genre is related to
  80. me particular kind of sense and also importantly, a ZX.
  81. We said genres also include certain semiotic, so not only
  82. sonic, so we can think of that.
  83. That chain of associations that we get from snippets of
  84. information is being sunny, sonic but also behavioral visual.
  85. So from the way that musical artists onda audiences to
  86. perform and dress all shape how we invest So these
  87. are some of the core ways we're going to be
  88. thinking we're over the Net.
  89. I think it's important to try and impact return.
  90. That's what we'll be doing in the next few few
  91. weeks thinking John, the usefulness of your yeah, understand music
  92. place in the world.
  93. Um, so that's what we do in the first section
  94. of the course, and then we'll take that through a
  95. za thread when we start thinking case to the exam,