ART 80F - MODULE 3 LECTURE CONTENT
Remix origins - Music + audio
Jazz + Remix
Jazz in 1930s and 40s a re-appropriation of mass-produced / mechanic big band swing (co-opted from blues origins) by African American musicians + communities
Instrumentation varied by region, community + specific cultural influences
Live component + interaction important - both audience + with musicians
Improvisation + uniqueness v.s. reproduction
Each instance of play a deconstruction + recombination of both musical influences and the original song itself (media objects)
Mainstream focus shifted focus to R + B in 1950s
Spirituals, Work Songs + Remix - Connections
Medias of capitalism, industry + religion (systems used to perpetuate + justify slavery in the US)
Language used as a survival media (both cultural + physical) - oral tradition made possible via this media when de-constructed + recombined by enslaved peoples
Songs had double / hidden meanings - freedom, navigation, expression, survival, communication