Wednesday, 18 April 2012
Thursday, 15 March 2012
Kramer Theory
Postmodern music does not respect the boundaries between sonorities and procedures of the past and of the present.
This Oasis song from 1995 samples the melody from John Lennon's Imagine which was released in 1971. They bring the tune into the 90's 'Britpop' phase of music Oasis are so well known for; this shows a disregard for the procedures of the past, editing a well respected piece of music does not respect the boundaries of past and present.
Kanye samples Shirley Bassey's iconic song, particularly the chorus. This disregards procedures of past and present. It also ignores the boundaries of past and present by completely remixing the song to give an alternative view point of the song, as well as mixing genres.
Postmodern music shows disdain for the often unquestioned value of structural unity.
This songs features Will Ferrell quotes 'No one knows what it means, but it's provocative, Gets the people going!' from film Blades of Glory. This interrupts the structure of the song, the quote is also said to represent an opinion of rap music, which could potentially suggest the song features an element of irony.
This song starts with a short story which explains the context of the song.
This Oasis song from 1995 samples the melody from John Lennon's Imagine which was released in 1971. They bring the tune into the 90's 'Britpop' phase of music Oasis are so well known for; this shows a disregard for the procedures of the past, editing a well respected piece of music does not respect the boundaries of past and present.
Kanye samples Shirley Bassey's iconic song, particularly the chorus. This disregards procedures of past and present. It also ignores the boundaries of past and present by completely remixing the song to give an alternative view point of the song, as well as mixing genres.
Postmodern music shows disdain for the often unquestioned value of structural unity.
This songs features Will Ferrell quotes 'No one knows what it means, but it's provocative, Gets the people going!' from film Blades of Glory. This interrupts the structure of the song, the quote is also said to represent an opinion of rap music, which could potentially suggest the song features an element of irony.
This song starts with a short story which explains the context of the song.
Wednesday, 14 March 2012
The IT Crowd
Season 2, Episode 3 - Moss and the German
- Opening credits are visually similar to old 80's computer games. The theme tune also sounds like music you would hear on these computer games. (Term used for this music is 8bit)
- Also reminiscent of Gary Newman's work (1980's Synth pioneer)
- Opening sequence features parody of piracy advert's from beginning of films, largely exaggerated.
- Hyper real characters including German Cannibal and Russian smoker. Also very stereotypical Police officer.
- Married couple homage - common feature of comedies, two male leads play husband and wife roles. Moss lies on sofa when talking to Jen, links to idea of marriage counselling.
- References Morecombe and Wise 'In Bed' with marriage idea.
- Russian stereotype, very hyper real. Taken very far, ludicrous, speaks with russian accent. Music and visuals change when smoking, lighting becomes bleaker.
- German Cannibal- bricolage of German and cannibal stereotypes. Exaggerated and references Hannibal Lector and German stereotypical food; Schweinefleisch is pork. The accent is also very precise to the German way of speaking.
- Fine Young Cannibals are an 80's band referenced in terms of the German cannibal.
- Douglas Reyhnam dances to door singing 'There's somebody at the door' from 80's TV show sang by Rod Hull and Emu.
- Gorky Park is a famour Russian Novel also referenced.
- Film references include Tarantino and Ocean's Eleven.
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