week11 Does the music industry create the market?

I think the music industry does help create the market in some way. The music industry makes a demand and then fills those demands. In a way the music industry controls the consumer and the consumer controls the music industry. Although the music industry can not force you to buy music, they try to make you purchase it through always playing it on the radio, television and by telling you whats top in the charts. As a consumer of music myself, i buy the music i like rather than what is in the chart. This shows how the consumer controls the music industry because we let the them know what music we like by buying it. So the music industry produces music that is similar to the music that has made money before. So in conclusion the market and the music industry control each other.

week10 A magazine review in the language/style of the magazine (NME)

Fellas, after reading this music mag im telling you there is no turning back to the other rubbish, thats if your interested in rock, pop and indie (which i am not). This is simply because New Musical Express also known as NME mag has all the latest info and gossip to offer on those particular subjects. It is full of adverts on all kinds of gigs, events, as well as when all the new singles and albums sre coming out, plus loads of other stuff on phones and hair gel. Its mainly about music reviews and bands that i have never heard of before and their tour dates. Some articles are longer than others, while the rest can be a waste of time as i seemed to be just flicking through with no interest. I guess the good thing about it, is that there is a different feature of a band or pop/rock celeb in each issuse which i about it. The rest of it is music charts and ticket competitions. Its decent, just not for me but it will do i suppose.

week9 Are blackness and whiteness useful concepts in the study of popular music?

The terms blackness and whiteness does not tell us anything about the music, which means it does not matter and is not really important. These two concepts may be of use when it comes to the history of the music, as to where it may have come from, but it does not tell us where is going. What these concepts do, is reduces the music down to race, while disregarding everything else in terms of popular music. Another reason as to why blackness and whiteness does not really matter is because with music today you can not distinguish what is black music and what is white music because all the different genres of music are all fused together, which makes it hard to define. Where as compared to the early years of music, there was a clear separation. With popular music today blackness and whiteness, depending on what you mean by it, is not useful when it comes to understanding music as it is not relevant.