Week 6

I was driving home from lecture, sitting in traffic, as I look around I noticed a restaurant called Giraffe, it advertised, “World Music”! I started to asked myself world music really can be any form of music. It is considered to be global.
“,,,Popular music essentially becomes established as the accepted standard global template”.

So in order to become Global/ World music it is believed that the most successful ones are usually sang in English and and that every song at some point would have been in the local music category.

World music should have a wide range of audiences, in which must people would have heard of i.e. The Beatles.

Week 5

Popular music is often looked at as mass produced commodity and can be a simple form of art. The word art relates to our senses and emotion. This can include expression from music, literature, film and paintings.

Theodor Adorno considers that, ‘popular music industry is an all consuming production line’. This may suggest that the music industry is a man eat man world. It has been created to simply make profit from its audience.

Week 4

In Richard Patterson opinion, there are a total of six factors that includes all social, economical and culture factors of producing something new. So in this case, the six factors which were technology, law, industry structure, organisation structure occupational career and the market. These are used to explore and explain the reason for the emergence of a new music genre Rock ‘n’ Roll.

However, there was limitations towards his research as he only explored how the music was of Rock ‘n’ Roll emerge and not why.
In addition, one of the major flaw is that popular artist such as Elvis Presley were not mentioned and as a matter of fact he was way Rock n’ Roll became so popular.

Week 3

According to the “Rolling Stone’ magazine they conducted a list of top 50 guitarists of all time, and there is no woman listed on that list!

Rock music is mainly dominated by males and is therefore strongly categorised as very masculine. Mavis Bayton suggest
that, “male fans buy a guitar; female fans buy a poster”. This highlights the fact that both gender reacts in a different way as to what they desire. For example, for a girl they may wish to have their idol on their wall to worship.

As seen in one of Prince’s live performance the electric guitar is known as an extension of the male body, which shows the powerfulness of the performer and rock is usually performed in an aggressive and unruly manner.

In addition, Marvis Bayton also states that, “as girls grows up they learn how to be feminine and not engage in male activity”. This suggest that females are usually stereotype as polite, kind and gentle so if a female does play the guitar they may not be taken seriously.