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A summary of chapter 6-14 and 16 of Understanding Media and Culture, An Introduction to Mass Communication (Version 2.0) by Jack Lule.
Chapter 6 Music
Chapter 7 Radio
Chapter 8 Movies
Chapter 9 Television
Chapter 10 Electronic Games and Entertainment
Chapter 11 The Internet and Social Media
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Summary Understanding Media and Culture: An Introduction to Mass Communication (Version 2.0) by Jack Lule
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Chapter 6 Music
6.1 From social networking to stardom
- Example of Colbie Caillat who became popular by uploading her music on Myspace
- Internet is the changing face of music industry – everybody can become an artist + contact with fans
6.2 The Evolution of popular music
- Pop music = any genre that appeals to a wide audience or subculture
- Phonograph = 19th-century invention of reproducing sound: tinfoil wrapped around cylinder
- Gramophone = flat disc instead of cylinder to record sound – start of mass production
- Tin Pan Alley = area in Manhattan in which singer-songwriter and publisher teams worked
- Vaudeville = variety entertainment containing short acts – opened new door for publishers
- Ragtime = jazzy piano style music, characterized by syncopated melody – offbeat dance music
- 1920: Technological development threatened the Tin Pan Alley’s dominance
Improved quality of gramophones: sales increased
Radio broadcasting: less gramophone & sheet-music sales
Recording industry began to profit when license fees were introduced
- 1930: Rise of jazz and blues
Jazz = improvisational music, primarily instrumental – variety of styles: African/gospel/blues
Became legal form of entertainment when white orchestras began to incorporate jazz
Format became more structured: swing style of jazz
Blues = former slaver who adapted African musical heritage to American environment
Themes as personal adversity, overcoming hard luck etc.
6.3 The reciprocal nature of music and culture
- Music influences culture and vise versa
Migration, youth culture & racial integration – culture spreads
Racism in music industry, ideas/morality, appearance – music spreads
- 20th century mass migration Saethern black people to urban areas
Blues to the North
Incorporated new styles: vaudeville & swing
Muddy Waters: electric guitar Chicago blues
- 1950s: salary and personal freedom of young people increased
Power to influence record sales
Rock & roll specifically for teens – also on radio and tv
- 1950s: civil right movement: desegregation
North racial tensions and riots – gradually integration
Berry Gordy Jr. Motown: Motown sound
Crossover black and white audiences
- Large record companies fueled racism
Hijacking hits of black people releasing censored white cover
- Rock & roll had a negative impact on morality
Elvis Presley’s “vulgar” dancing was seen as sexual
- Gender-bending performers: little Richard, David Bowie, and Annie Lennox
Normalize androgyny (bi-sexuality)
6.4 Current popular trends in the music industry
- Global music business constitutes powerful oligopoly
Major record labels make up 85%
Big four: EMI, Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music, and Warner Music Group
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