Week 6

{ September 3, 2010 @ 4:01 pm } · { Uncategorized }

Student: Chong Zhou
Student Number: S2707135
Tutor: Anne Ferguson
Tutorial Time: Tuesday 15:00-16:00 G30_1.18
“Music, Technology, community, Identity” is one of the course reading this week .several weeks before I had already talked something about music. So I do really know what to say this week.As we all know, music play a important role in our daily life. The amount of music in our “soundscape” has increased vastly in recent decades. We are not only exposed to music via the radio, tapes and CD’s, it is also an essential part of traditional television programmes and cinema films, as well as being an integral part of television advertising “Independence is a much invoked term in the music world, and its cooptation by the industry all too often corrupts and invalidates whatever real meaning the word possesses. Independence is an empty pose to the extent it does not relate critically and stand in opposition to the homogenising force of corporatism and culture commodification.” Furthermore, music has intruded more and more into public space. Music is one of the oldest forms of human communication, a human universal to be found in all cultures at all times, it is in many ways the most global aspect of the “global village”. Music has many facets and many uses, but it is generally acknowledged that its primary appeal is to the emotions
1 Popstar Madonna caused a real controversy in the field of cultural studies. n the 1980′s much was written about her stylistic combination of assertive femininity with traditional erotic symbolism. While some researchers were highly critical of Madonna, accusing her of pandering to and reinforcing traditional gender stereotypes (usually on the basis of content analyses and critiques), others reported ethnographic studies indicating that many adolescent girls were identifying more with the “assertive successful female — yet still feminine” aspect of Madonna’s style.
2 Susan Boyle – Britains Got Talent

3 Kesha

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