Above is the sheet from my tutorial with Pete, which i found really useful and helpful and it was also a really good way of bouncing certain ideas off of each other as Pete has a keen interest in music too, helping by suggesting artists who he thought were relevant to look at.
Key things that came from the tutorial were certain ideas such as influences to look at, what direction to start angling it towards and narrowing down the actual title.
Using theorists is very important as a way of having something to back my research and my own theories, i have been advised to look at Freud and see what he made of ideas within music and one that i have got from Richards lecture is Theodore Adorno who i have done a reaction post on and was quite intrigued by his 'theory of music and its social implifications'.
As Adorno's theory was based on the idea of 'popular' music and in particular pop i have been advised to look into an area which i personally have a large dislike to! Thats the idea to look into the pop metaphorical machine with the 'hit factory' of Stock, Aitken and Waterman. These were the guys that were known producing processed pop and manufactured pop stars. I love the idea of looking at this kind of stuff in my work but because of my angle and personal opinion on that kind of stuff i can take in a different direction, mainly because i hate it.
Key themes to perhaps focus on are which are at the bottom of the sheet are:
- Gender - ambiguity
- Dealing with issues e.g social, cultural
- Swearing/freedom of speech
- Hip Hop - satirical/political statements such as - Goldie looking chain - Jurassic 5
- State authorised music
- Controversy/pivotal moments in music - leading to social attitudes changing - acceptance - subcultures
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