Week 2 Lec Love n Pop Songs PDF

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What we use these for Recorded pop songs used differently from books o Dancing, background music, protest, entertain, sleep, invite/shut people out/in, social control, bars/clubs Plays a role in our social identities o Goth, emo, punk, etc. o Forms mostly around music  Identifies taste here, and how we relate to others  Invites discussions All cultures at all times have produced music: folk music o All aspects of song passed down, nothing recorded When music happened, it mattered; you were there to listen to you o Made by people, for people to listen to it directly Music about tragedies, important days, wars, emotion, etc. o Folk traditions, love songs are very minimal  Shared knowledge of individuals and culture  Necessarily oral Process of recording folk music killed it as well; rapidly near 1800s Industrialization replaced small interlocking rural communities to large stranger filled masses o Workers were in a position to buy things because they worked for money  Rather than making it themselves o One effect of ind. Was to turn entertainment as a commodity  To buy entertainment; going to a concert hall for example  To go consciously and listen, to buy music o Bought sheet music, records, etc. Music as a commodity could be used to shut people out (idea of ipods) o Capitalist movement

Kind Hearted Woman: quiet music, to be listened to rurally o His kind hearted woman turns out to be evil; she’ll do anything for you but just annoys you o Observational, this is what life is like I Get a Kick Out of You: written for a musical, purist product of mass culture, as opposed to KHW as folk o Full-on infatuation Tender Trap: similar to KHW o Aspirational: want love and life to be like, what it should be like Pretty Thing: music for dancing

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o Lyrics almost identical to TT o For pretend rebellion, aspirational again o To resemble their parents o Bo Diddly, almost singly created rock n roll Who Do You Love: perversity of attraction, why would I fall for this guy? He’s bad news! I Got You: Lyrically, is empty o Sounds he makes, the shouts are dirty, the hums are suggesting  Really inserts the human body in the song, opposite from opera, where the voice is just the instrument Let It Be: what the teenagers of TT want, to hear they are awesome Good music comes from somewhere in a specific time, KHW o Appeals to authenticity o Lyrics with strong imagery No, Woman, No Cry: manages to be both aspirational and observational o Chorus drags slightly behind beat o Says more about love than any other song...