Professional Documents
Culture Documents
The focus of your task will be postmodernism in relation to music. Please read
through this sheet carefully before asking me any questions as most of the
answers can be found in this document.
Homage does your chosen artist use other peoples music in a respectful way?
Are they bringing a potentially overlooked or forgotten style to a new audience?
Parody does your chosen artist use other peoples music in order to mock it
and its fans? Are they attempting to damage the authority of a style of music?
Bricolage does your chosen artist use music from different time periods or
genres? Does this change the meaning of the original song?
Consumption how does your chosen artist wish their music to be consumed?
Is there an artefact (object) that accompanies their music?
Creation how does your artist create their music, are they a musician, a
songwriter, a composer,
Influence Has your artist influenced the wider world of music (are other artists
keen to collaborate, have mainstream artists appropriated their sound)?
For the higher grades you will need to have an understanding of music that
relates to the following areas:
Audiences that are both niche and mainstream. E.g.: Radio 1, 1xtra, BBC6,
XFM
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.