Postmodern Music

Research based task:

-the postmodern sensibility that anything can be considered cool in an

ironic ‘I know it’s bad, but it’s so bad it’s good’ way. Artists such as susan boyle and Jedward.

-Work that is created based (entirely or in part) on older material. This incorporates sampling and will take you from the realms of hip hop culture transporting you finally in today’s modern fragmented musical landscape.

-Audiences that are both niche and mainstream. E.g.: Radio 1, 1xtra, BBC6,

XFM.

-The ways in which people engage and listen to music e.g.: iPod, DAB, mobile phones, radio, youtube.

-The legal issues surrounding sampling. (Led Zeppelin ‘borrowed’ heavily from old bluesmen and it took years for the songwriters to be credited and paid royalties. The same group took a hard-line stance initially to be
sampled by hip hop groups.)

-The state of the music industry incorporating any recent developments that change how we access/ interact with music e.g.: Spotify, X Factor, iTunes, illegal downloading, free cds with newspapers etc

All of the above need to have example attached to help them make sense. The.
examples need to have explanations that place them within a postmodern
context.