Monday, February 18, 2008
Listening to music in class
So far, the music we've been listening to has been awesome, I even downloaded some of them. However, I find it interesting that with some of the songs we study, we watch the youtube clip that goes along with it. I'm kind of confused why we do this. Anyone can post anything on youtube and the images we saw could have been put together in 5 minutes. I'm not saying there isnt retorical meaning behind them, but we do not know who made them. The meaning and structures of the songs are not connected with the images - Marvin Gaye did not put together the video we watched in class. This isn't true with some of the other people watched like Bob Dylan or Neil Young. With Dylan, we saw him playing on a stage that he was on. All the visuals went with the song. With one of the listenings of Neil Young, we didnt use any visuals and based are opinions purely on sounds. In both these cases, we were able to discuss the rhetoric of the artist's choices and not something a random person made.
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Teddy, my man, are you privileging the aritst over the common man? We watched some fo the video clips to see what kind of rhetorical moves people are making with already intrinsically rhetorical texts. It adds another layer of depth to the conversation, and a value judgement of the work need not be the only point, as its pretty clear that the artist has a much greater command of the material than does someone acting out of impulse.
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