Genre

This lesson is part of the Style & Compositional Techniques category.

Objectives

• Students will be familiar with the concept of genre from academic and marketing perspectives.
• Students will explore the definitions and membership of different genres.

Resources

Readings

• Johnson, “#genre."
  • Part 1
  • Part 2

Tools

• McDonald, "Every Noise At Once"

Class Activities

• Discussion of the concept of genre from the point of view of record industry, recording artist, and listener
• Analysis of a one or more specific genres, including genre definitions and inter-genre variety

Assignments

• Report or questionnaire on a selected genre
• Comparison between selected genres (this article has some good possibilities)
• Explorations of some of the links at the bottom of everynoise.com: compare & explain geographic trends, etc.

Files

• Exploring a genre using everynoise.com (Word | Pages | PDF)