Monday, March 21, 2011
Postmodern aspects of musical examples
Dan Black's symphonies is a prime example of bricolage in music, a big part of postmodern media. Dan Black bases his song entirley on other peices of music e.g. a movie theme from the 1980's is the main melody of the song. This shows 3 of the qualities of post modern music: modification - a song has been pulled apart for the individual part to be used in this remaix style record by Dan Black, which ttakes away the seemingly untouchable quality of the songs we listen to in everyday life e.g. on the radio and shows that it can be recycled. This breaks the typical aspects of popular music, which is a very postmodern thing to do. authenticity displaced - relating back to the previous point, the untouchable, other wordly and indescribable quality which naturally forms around normal music.
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This is a good start Reece but you do need to consider the participation element within music. Participation is essential within postmodernism. Destroying/blurring the boundaries between audience and art is essential. We are no longer passive receivers of art, this destruction of a narrative is an interesting debate, if we are all artists then no one is an artist.
ReplyDeletei am going to go back to this post at some point between now and friday to finish it, i just thought i'd upload it now so that you could see i had started it - and when i finish it i will be writing about the participation element, thanks for the advice
ReplyDeleteI was just saying to Mr Ford how impressed we've been with your progress with this part of the course. Keep working hard and keep updating this blog and you might surprise yourself come the summer.
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