Addendum to my Fetishisn post -- you gotta watch this.

Thank You for a Great Class. This song is for you....Have a great summer

At 3:55 Fatboy Slim appears and looks at camera (or so says "brittany is money").
"So everyone knows thats Spike Jonze in the striped shirt, right?" (or so says labeehay pawns)
" Basically one of the most unique and creative music videos out there. Awesome tune as well." (or so says MikeSparksMusic 1 month ago)
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!.... that is all" (Or so says casscasss 1 month ago)

Danielle Radin "Adorno and Strawberry Fields"

Michael Holman--Shpongle Experiences

In Defense of Music

I chose to write about an artist I know next to nothing about, but she creatively post-engineered the record with its live instrumentation. The song helped me meditate on troubling worldly events and encouraged me to clean up my ipod (still in progress).

http://www.pitchfork.com/forkcast/15722-supreme-absolute-japanese-version/

Reclaiming the Whole: Fetishism and Feminism in Music

Thanks everyone for a great class!


Pop Diva Example - Christina Aguilera


Female Country Music Artist Example - Carrie Underwood


Female Black Music Artist Example - Rhianna and Eminem


X-ray Spex Art-I-Ficial


X-ray Spex Obsessed with You


X-ray Spex World Turned Day Glo


Poly Styrene - Kitsch

Bieber

Hi Everyone,

For the essay I submitted today, I wrote about Justin Bieber's "Baby," featuring Ludacris. I like this song for multiple reasons. It's catchy, relatable, aspirational, and it's a great song to leave in the background while I think about other things.

Although Bieber draws criticism from many sources, overall most people agree with me. With 537 million views and counting, "Baby" is the most viewed YouTube video of all time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kffacxfA7G4

Thanks, everyone, for a great semester. I really enjoyed this class!

Intersections of Adorno, Barthes, Duende: "Wild is the Wind" Nina Simone

Nina Simone "Wild is the Wind"


Revolutionary Road Trailer


Nick Cave's Lecture on Love Songs (mainly just because I love this lecture (and this song)): http://everything2.com/title/Nick+Cave%2527s+Love+Song+Lecture

Nick Cave "Far From Me"

Adorno and Avant-Garde Jazz

Final Assignment: Adele

After struggling with the music I wanted to write about, I decided to choose a contemporary artist with a powerful voice. Adele's albums I believe are an exception to the popular songs Adorno detested. By reasoning through Barthe's conception of the "grain" of the voice, popular music can be more than a tool for escape. Thus, her voice, not traditional pop-song gimmicks won me over.

Further comment:She will be performing in Berkeley in June.

The Honest Grain of Hardcore as Music of the Heart

1. Parkway Drive, Boneyards, live DVD cut filmed in Sydney, Australia


2. Stick to Your Guns, "We're What Separates the Heart from the Heartless," audio track


3. Defiler, "Cryomancer," music video (i apologize for this...)


4. Title Fight, "Symmetry," audio track


5. Have Heart, "The Same Sun," audio track

Pleasure in Pain: Nirvana and Embodiment

"The merest schoolgirl, when she falls in love, has Shakespeare and Keats to speak her mind for her; but let a sufferer try to describe a pain in his head to a doctor and language at once runs dry." - Virginia Woolf, "On Being Ill"

Post for Final

Queen- Bohemian Rhapsody

I chose to write on Adorno's Popular Music in his Introduction to the Sociology of Music. In it he brings up the idea of the 'evergreen hit' which is one that seems to have an ageless quality.

Nancy

The Inter-Diegetic Relationship Between Music and Emotions: Music & the Noumena

Unconscious Listening

For the purposes of my essay, I couldn't find a 'shareable' form of the song without any visual content, so I've embedded here a version with the least visuals possible for Youtube.

Additionally, since it is noted in the essay, here is the sample by Lupe Fiasco (again considered alongside the essay, the visual element should be excluded):

The song for the final: Voluptuos Music

Textures and Grains: An Argument for Music As Mate