Music 215

Mediation

Intermediary action referring to the practices of all the people who intervene as popular music is produced, distributed and consumed

Hegemony

the predominant influence of a political or cultural force over another

counter-hegemony

resisting the influence of a political or cultural force that has hegemonyThomas edison-

Thomas edison

invented the phonograph, his was the first of the three record labels, he experimented with tinfoil which was not a good recording medium, and switched to wax cylinders which was the first recorded medium

The first three record labels

The Edison Company, Columbia Records, Victor Talking Machine Company

Coin-operated jukeboxes

Coin-operated cylinder playback machines - phonograph

Home entertainment device

Grammy Awards, improved the sound, appearance, and musical genres

Minstrel Shows

White performers in blackface doing parodies of African music, 1840s-1880s

Jim Crow

first international American hit song, stereotypical black man

Okeh Records

Indie Label in NYC, first black blues vocalist, first successful “hillbilly” recording

Mamie Smith, “That Thing Called Love”

Okeh Records, first black blues vocalist recording

Imagined Communities

exists in the minds of those who imagine themselves belonging to a larger entity comprised of people they will likely never meet

Mass-Mediated Consumer

Sponsorship, the people that pay the radio to get promoted

Martin Block

Make-Believe Ballroom

al benson

jazz and blues dj, popularized it

Black DJS

“personality djs”

Alan Freed

also brought black music to white youth, popularized rock and roll

The moondog show

Alan Freed

Escapism

The tendency to seek distraction and relief from unpleasant realities, especially by seeking entertainment or engaging in fantasy

House

Chicago, disco, soul, rock, R&B, drum machines, synthesizers, initially for gay black men, expanded to wider audiences

EDM

entertainment industry truns raves into festivals- male dominated, inclusiveness

Turns Four fields of artistic practice

presentational performance, participatory performance, High fidelity, studio audio art

Presentational performance

One group of people (the artists) prepare and provide music for another group *the audience) who do not participate in making the music or dancing

Participatory performance

no artist-audience distinctions, only participants and potential participants performing different roles

high fidelity

the making of recordings tat are intended to index or be iconic of live sounds or performance

studio audio art

involves the creation and manipulation of sounds in a studio or on a computer to create a recorded art project

theremin

Leon thermic, Russian electrical engineer

moog synthesizer

Robert moog, engineer, first widely used electronic instrument, ally of LGBTQ

The Edison Company

One of the first record labels

Columbia Records

second of the first record labels

Victor Talking Machine Company

Third of the first record labels