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Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2007 5:18 pm
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Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 1:38 pm
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Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 11:21 pm
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Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 8:28 pm
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Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 6:25 pm
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Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 7:00 pm
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Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2007 11:07 am
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Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 3:41 pm
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It all depends on the curriculum. I am a classical muscian as well as having a jazz background. Also I am a traditional artist who is swimming in a world of digital mass production.
If the curriculum you study is worth it's snuff, then you're going to cover both... also there is a difference between Pop Art (which is a movement of fine arts) and Popular Art. Popular art would be anime, while Pop Art would be Jasper Johns, Claus Oldenberg and Andy Warhol. Pop Art is considered Art Historically significant right now, while Anime has yet to crack the pages of most respected Art History texts.
I'm a grad student studying art. I study all art, popular and historically significant. I do the same with music, and that's why I play multiple instruments, allowing myself to skirt genres and be open to anything.
100 years ago Jazz was considered low-brow and uncouth. To say that Hip-Hop dancing is these things, and too common for the curriculum doesn't allow for the advancement of dance as an art form. If schools like Juilliard, San Francisco's Conservatory of Dance, and other schools of the like are accepting it as a form of dance, then an art video from the 80/90's is not the reference you want to look at.
Not trying to offend, just an observation.
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Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 12:47 am
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I took a course in popular music and finally found a teacher whose way of thinking matched my own. We looked at popular music from an ethnomusicological point of view, which was an awesome way to analyze it. I definitely agreed with him in that no one form of music is "higher" than another form, despite many years of being taught to think like that. Western European Art Music only makes up like 1/20th of the world's music, if that. There are so many other areas of music worth studying, I really hope that music studies moves towards a broader spectrum of material in the future.
And, yeah, a lot of popular music is simplistic, but there are still ways to look at it from an academic point of view, get something out of it, and enjoy it. I remember looking at a couple of Beatles' songs in my second year music history course several years ago... it was interesting to see the time signature changes they used, and other innovative techniques.
Other ethnomusicology courses I've taken include World music (that time around we studied Canadian First Nations' music, and Canadian fiddle music), and South Indian rhythms and ragas. Oh, and that popular music course I took touched on popular music from several areas: different eras of American pop music, different Asian pop music (J-pop, K-pop, etc), and a list that was devised for the top 50 Canadian popular songs of all time.
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