Lennon |
Ferry |
Rundgren |
no disjunction between performer and non-original material |
ironic juxtapositions between performance and original |
absolute mimicry erases original |
Authenticity |
Irony |
modernism |
postmodernism
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unmediated expression confessional emotionally direct |
expression mannered, not direct |
example: Beats (Keruac's On the Road) |
example: Andy Warhol's Campbell soup paintings |
covers: selection --selection from cannon --autobiographical resonance- influences shaped specific artist --nostalgia |
covers: selection --no cannon- (can choose from any era) --disjunction between performer and material --reinvention |
--originality --reverence --spontaneity |
dual coded: ambiguity --balances reverence and mockery "Ironic aesthetic effects often seem paradoxical in that they are enabled by the very objects and standards that they appear to be targeting." |
sonics: covers performed --reverantly --in straitghtforward manner --close to the originals |
sonics: covers performed --ironic juxtaposition of styles --mannered style --in contrast to original's style |
visuals: --rock references (e.g. leather jacket, hair style) |
visuals: --self-conscious artifice --antirock, showbiz (e.g. tuxedo) |
verbal: --words same as original and understood in same way |
verbal: -- words same as original and understood in different way due to sonic & visual changes |
Authenticity - --no history required --"author-function useful --no disjunction btwn. performer and material |
Irony - --requires contrast --disjunction between performer and material --depends upon listener knowing:
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"It Ain't Me Babe"-Dylan |
"It Ain't Me Babe" -Ferry Ferry removes cannonic song from its context: --performed with strings and horns --theatrical style of singing --critiques and celebrates songwriting skills |
"Good Vibrations" -Beach Boys |
"Good Vibrations" -Rundgren --exact replica |