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The Evolution of music in the 20th Century Music is a living art form, not only is it not static in its production, like a painting which once created is intended to remain the same, but the techniques and styles used to generate music change throughout the course of history as well. Many musical theorists and philosophers have proposed different motivators for the dramatic (as compared to changes in different eras) changes in music that occurred in the 20th century. These motivators include firstly the blending of cultures through migration, both forced and voluntary, represented by the views of George Lipsitz and Iain Chambers in their respective essays “’Ain’t Nobody Here But Us Chickens’: The Class Origins Of Rock and Roll” and “A strategy
How the Cultural Turn has allowed music to be transformed into oral histories: music about migration and the borderland between the USA and Mexico from the album Border Song Introduction This essay will explain how the cultural turn has affected the study of migration through the advent of music. The cultural turn was a movement in the 1980s and 90s that changed how geography is studied (Eyerman, 2004). This has allowed for a much broader range of topics to be researched through a geographical lens, such as identity, race, gender, sexuality, and intersectionality, that take a more human-focused approach rather than just a physical one (Jacobs and Spillman, 2005).
Western and international genres include jazz and international covers in rock, funk, or reggae that do not directly relate to indigenous culture, whether in the lyrics or in the music. Though also performed by some indigenous groups, they form the predominant category of popular music performed by Western-originated communities and by external international artists touring in Tahiti. Lastly, the ‘Products of casual encounters’ category comprises often one-off performances featuring invited artists from different origins and producing unusual combinations
Music is a powerful and influential form of entertainment, that has enabled society to express their emotions and thoughts freely while promoting a strong sense of community. Post World War II, both American and British music influenced a significant change in the Australian lifestyle. The dominant influence from these countries have impacted on Australian culture and has introduced neoteric sense of community, fashion and behaviour through the deliverance of music. The strong influence of rap music from the United States of America enabled a new subculture to form within Australian society.
Although the artist Richard Serra had his own ideas and reasoning for placing the Tilted Arc in the Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan, I agree that the piece needed to be removed. Richard Serra considered himself to be an abstract artist and a minimalist sculptor, who did not value creating beauty or function in art. Instead, he strived to make the viewer the subject of the art piece, and force them to reconsider their ideas of space, time, and movement. An example of his work, entitled The Matter of Time, was constructed out of weatherproof steel twisted into, "a complex spiral(1). " A viewer is able to walk through the piece and experience how the steel walls tilt in and out, making the walkway bend and increasing or decreasing the space.
Yasmine Puente Ms. Scott Paper 4 9 April, 2016 English 1320 Spring Movement throughout history in relation to prejudice in Latino music When I was little, my mom introduced me to artists like Mana, Romeo Santos, and Selena Quintanilla that she would listen to when she was growing up. All I can remember from my youth is that even though I liked the beat, I could not really understand the words. Though none of that meant anything to me, my mom was pleased that I was somehow connecting my ethnicities heritage. Though as I grew up saw the impact the music had on American culture. Zachary Stieber states that “Hispanic Heritage Month celebrates a growing segment of the American population and culture.
Being black in America has become a curse and a blessing for those who identify within the black community. Most mainstream artists that are successful are black, there is biracial president who identifies himself black, and black culture has become the popular culture. Ironically, there in lies the problem with black culture becoming the dominating culture. Everyone wants to be black until police brutality, racism, and a historical prejudice are brought into the mix. In my group our topic was the title of my paper, “Shades of Grey”: Narratives of Black Experience.
The Spectrum of Exoticism Ralph Locke defines exoticism as the use of non-Western elements such as groups, people, or places in Western music perceived as different in order to purposefully "Other" the other culture or subject, or label as different from one 's own (Locke 47). The spectrum of exoticism ranges from Pure Exoticism to Transcultural Composing, in which a fine line exists between these spectrums. Musical exoticism, in particular, is the process of borrowing foreign elements from music and merging those aspects in a way that is familiar to the audience in order to make a statement. Pure Exoticism intends to alienate another culture and its elements, while Transcultural Composing does not intend to "Other" another culture and instead, incorporates foreign elements into Western music.
In a recent article by CNN, pop artist Bruno Mars was found accused of “cultural appropriation,” by critics of his new album, “24k Magic.” The Cambridge Dictionary defines “cultural appropriation” as “the act of taking or using things from a culture that is not your own, especially without showing that you understand or respect this culture. " Writer and activist, Seren Sensei posits that Mars’ “takes pre-existing work and he just completely, word-for-word recreates it, extrapolates it," she added. "He does not create it, he does not improve upon it, he does not make it better.”
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Throughout American history, the population of the country has become more and more diverse, and with this growth in diversity comes the growth of the diversity of cultures in this society. However, cultural appropriation has become a problem as the American society became more and more diverse throughout the course of the years. Cultural appropriation is the theft of one culture’s intellectual property or key beliefs, generally by a larger culture, and then this larger culture using what is taken from a minority culture incorrectly or inappropriately. Cultural appropriation perpetuates many of the stereotypes found within American society, and it also is a main contributor to the misinterpretations of minority cultures within the country.
Individuals do not fully understand the challenges that people that created things from their culture have faced in the Western society. (http://www.huffingtonpost.ca) The difference between cultural appreciation and cultural appropriation is that cultural appreciation is showing interest in someone’s culture and wanting to know more about a culture’s history. When someone shows appreciation for a culture it shows that they will understand if they are doing something wrong regarding people’s culture because the individual will have and an understanding of the culture from what they have learned. There are different
In “Music and Identity”, Simon Frith disagrees with the idea of homology. He goes against the traditional ideas of homology that states that music is solely an expression of culture. He argues that it goes in reverse and that, instead of social groups coming together and agreeing on values to express in music, that music helps social groups come together and express and agree on values which they might share. This is practically the opposite of the homology model. Frith supports his argument with comparisons to African American music, of the ‘race records’ among others.
Cultural appropriation has been used throughout history to imply messages in both art and design. Often used in political art, satire and contempary art, this type of insinuation uses popular symbols of a culture or sub-culture (these symbols often stem from stereotypes so that they can be understood by the masses) to further layer an artwork or imply a deeper meaning by hinting towards a characteristic of said culture. The key to identifying appropriation is whether these symbols and signs are being used out of their original context. It is therefore important to understand the meaning of cultural appropriation and how it is used, to completely comprehend these works of art. This essay considers three works and how cultural appropriation was