Kaye: Media Coursework Blog 2 - Mr Bush

  1) Music Video: Introduction - factsheet questions 2) Music Video: Old Town Road CSP 3) Music Video: Postcolonial theory 4) Music Video: Ghost Town CSP 5) Music Video: Postmodernism and music video

  Media Magazine Theory Drop - Postmodernism Create a new blog post called 'Postmodernism in music video: blog tasks'. Read ‘The Theory Drop: Postmodernism’ in MM66  (p26). You'll find our Media Magazine archive here - remember you'll need your Greenford Google login to access. Answer the following questions: 1) How does the article define postmodernism in the first page of the article? Postmodernism is a cultural  movement that distrusts all  established philosophies and  frequently experiments with  the medium it is presented in.  Postmodernism  takes this concept of questioning traditional structures, representations  and expectations and pushes things  a step further. 2) What did media theorist and Semiotician Roland Barthes suggest in his essay ' The Death of the Author '? He suggests that a writer's opinions, intentions or interpretation of their own work are no more valid than anyone else's, suggesting that the audiences or the ...

  Background and historical contexts Read  this excellent analysis from The Conversation website of the impact Ghost Town had both musically and visually . Answer the following questions 1)  Why does the writer link the song to cinematic soundtracks and music hall tradition? The writer link the song to cinematic soundtrack and music hall tradition due to gaining that idea that it relfects and engenders anxiety by producing a " mood music ". 2) What subcultures did 2 Tone emerge from in the late 1970s? The subcultures that the 2 Tone emerge from in the late 1970s are  the  Mod and Punk subcultures  and its musical roots and the people in it, audiences and bands, were both black and white. Ska and the related Jamaican  Rocksteady  were its musical foundations, sharpened further by punk attitude and anger.  3) What social contexts are discussed regarding the UK in 1981? The social contexts that are discussed regarding the UK in 1981 are the fac...

  Read   this W Magazine deep dive on the Yeehaw agenda   and answer the following questions:  1) What are the visual cues the article lists as linked to the western genre?  The visual cues the article lists that links to western genre are cowboy hats, cow prints, rhinestones and fringed suede jackets. 2) How did the Yeehaw agenda come about?  The Yeehaw agenda came about by a Texas-based pop-culture archivist, Bri Malandro. This is where she called her instagram account @theyeehawagenda. She did this for both an archive and celebration of black culture and cowboy aesthetics in the popular culture. 3) Why has it been suggested that the black cowboy has been 'erased from American culture'?  It has been suggested that the black cowboy has been ‘erased from American culture’ due to black cowboys being part of the pop culture and the idea that they have been persisting for quite sometime.  4) How has the black cowboy aesthetic been reflected by the f...