MUH 2019
(section 0001)
“American Popular Music”
(Spring 2016, Class # 11613)
Classroom Building I (CB1), Room 0104
12:00 noon-1:15 pm (Tues-Thurs)
Instructor: Scott Warfield
Associate Professor of Music History
Office: PAC M 227
Email: scott.warfield@ucf.edu
Newcomers?
• See Day 1 PowerPoint Slides for Course Intro
• Find Course Web site
- google “Scott Warfield”
- find my page (“Carolina blue” background)
- follow link to MUH 2019
• READ the Syllabus
• READ (& complete) “Daily Assignments”
• Acquire the Textbook (and start READING)
Miss the Pre-Test?
• UCF requires a “recorded academic activity”
to verify eligibility for financial aid (this is it)
• Music Dept. collecting information only
• Extra Credit Point (or two) for your help
• Contact me via email:
scott.warfield@ucf.edu
ASAP to schedule make-up
Five “Themes”
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Listening Critically
Music and Identity
Music and Technology
Music is a Business
Music has “Centers” and “Peripheries”
(places)
Music and Identity
(Theme 2)
• What music do YOU listen to?
(…and why THOSE sounds?)
• Music is a Learned Behavior (and differs by
communities). (“My songs” vs. “Your songs”)
• Music identifies (among many others):
ethnicity, race, gender, age, and community
“You Don’t Know Me”
(Who ‘owns’ each?)
• Eddy Arnold - You Don't Know Me - Grand
Ole Opry Classics – YouTube
• You Don't Know Me Jerry Vale – YouTube
• RAY CHARLES You Don't Know Me &
What'd I Say 1963 live! - YouTube
• Willie Nelson - You Don't Know Me YouTube
Some More Examples
• Loretta Lynn - Coal Miner's Daughter – YouTube
• james brown,say it loud i'm black and i'm proud –
YouTube
• Sweet Home Alabama – YouTube
• Billy Joel - Allentown (W/Lyrics) – YouTube
Music and Technology
(Theme 3)
• Creation and dissemination of music
shaped by technology
• Is newer better? (and what is “better”?)
• DIY (do it yourself) vs. ?
• Who decides? (producer or consumer)
• Unseen consequences of change
What is this?
Sheet Music
(1800 to ?)
And this?
Edison Cylinder
Machine
(c. 1887-88)
“Graphophone”
Edison Phonograph (c. 1890-1910s)
What’s New?
“Victrola”
(record
player)
(c. 1901)
Piano, plus….?
“Player
Piano”
Ex. Roaring '20s Hits
On The Player Piano
- THE
CHARLESTON YouTube
Ex. The Old Time
Player Piano
Radio Broadcasting
(c. 1920s to present)
“Crystal” Receiver
Table top Radio Receiver
Sound with
Pictures
1929 - beginning of
“talkies”
“High Fidelity”
and “Stereo”
1950s-80s
Compact Discs (1982)
Digital Music
NB. The following slides are
not covered in the text book.
What is “Music”?
“Organized Sounds and Silences”
--John Cage
What can you organize?
• The 4 Parameters of Sound
• Pitch = the frequency of vibration (heard as
“high” vs. “low”)
• Duration = the length of time a sound lasts
(heard as aspects of rhythm)
• Timbre = tone color (the source of the sound,
i.e., instrument, voice, other)
• Dynamics = Loudness/Softness
• More Music Terminology—mine (not in the book)—
today and next week
Get Your Books &
CONTINUE READING
Chapter 1
See “Daily Assignments”
for specifics