My Playlist...

1. Aristocats - Everybody wants to be a cat.
-It was my favourite Disney film.
2.Repulica - Ready to go.
-Used to play it on long car journey's.
3. Spice girls - Wanna be.
-I loved the spice girls.
4. The Who - Baba O'Riley.
-My favourite song.
5. Discoradio - Saturday Night.
-School disco.
6. The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York.
-The bets Christmas song.
7. Pokemon - Gotta catch em' all.
-Big Pokemon fan.
8. Shania Twain - That impress me much.
-I sang this song in my year 4 talent contest.
9. Ian dury and the Blockheads - Clever Trevor.
-Reminds me of my Grandad.
10. Westlife - Up town girl.
-My first concert.
11. Natalie Imbruglia - Torn.
-I used to love this song.
12. Oasis - Half the world away.
-The royle family is incredible (Theme song).
13. Lethal Bizzle - Pow.
-When i was a chav.
14. The Clash - I fought the law.
-When i got taken to the police station.
15. Ziggy Marley - Dragonfly.
-My weed smoking faze.
16. Bob Dylan - Subterranean homesick blues.
-I love him, but my dad hates him.
17. Alice cooper - I'm eighteen.
-When i turned 18.
18. Blink 182 - All the small things.
-Reading festival 2010 - Greatest band i have seen live.
19. Lady Gaga - Poker Face.
-Because she is a joke.

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.

Pastiche

Pastiche in its simplest form is an imitation of an existing style. Normally it is used in a lighthearted way but more often it is very satirical.
A satire attempts to mock topical issues, which means that its humour and purpose is fleeting as it relies on the audiences knowledge of the issue that is being sent up.
Pastiche is now seen as part of Postmodernism and is used in both support and criticism of postmodernism.

Jacques Derrida - The Centre Is Not The Centre

“The centre is not the centre. The concept of a centered structure…is contradictorily coherent. And, as always, coherence in contradiction expresses the force of desire.”

The centre actually doesn’t exist, but because we have a need for it to make sense of the world around us, we perceive it to be there – however, according to Derrida, the need for and perception of a centre doesn’t necessarily mean that centre exists.

Talcott Parsons

Talcott Parsons was a sociologist in the 1950s who made observations of society leading to the structural functionalist view. This view suggests that society (like literature and film) has necessary structures that keep it together.

Post-Modernism is fundamentally the diverse mixture of any tradition with its immediate past: it is the continuation of Modernism and its transcendence (Charles Jencks, What is Post-Modernism? 1986).

Baudrillard Hyperreality

One easy to understand example of hyperreality is the McDonald's "M" arches create in the eyes of the viewer, the huge foodchain that it is known as today, when in "reality" the "M" represents nothing, and the food produced is neither identical nor infinite. (Shown in simulacra and simulation)
Marshall McLuhan who created the phrase ‘the medium is the message’ heavily influenced Baudrillard’s idea of hyperreality. Marshall’s phrase basically means that the way the message is presented becomes more important than the meaning of the message itself.

Baudrillard Simulacra and Simulation

From the 9/11 example of 'it was like a Movie', Baudrillard gives this Derrida’s point a name, Simulacra Simulation. Baudrillard claims that our current society has replaced all reality and meaning with symbols and signs, and that human experience of things is of a simulation of reality. He believes that we cannot separate the image from the 'reality', for example, when we eat a Big Mac, we eat the marketing and lifestyle associated with it, giving the impression that the Big Mac we are eating is the great thing advertised on the television, rather than just one of millions mass produced, we believe the one we see on the television is the one that we eat.