Adaptation Semiotic
Data Elaboration Blog Post
In 1967
The Association Never My Love
Social History
Climax of
liberalism, Civil rights movement, the women’s movement, the counterculture
revolution, the cold war détente
Many singers
released their songs in 1960s. They compete to others for their quality of
songs and performance (especially singing ability and rendering of musical
instrument ability.)
Syntagmatic
-Everyone
wears casual clothes. They wear Jeans and shirts. These casual clothes make
people feel the song is familiar to people’s daily lives.
-Background
is really simple. Pool side. There are no gorgeous set for performance. Just singers and musical instruments.
-Nobody
stands out. Every member is shown equally. Audience can concentrate on their
singing performance.
-The rhythm
is very slow and makes people relax.
Present
Social History
Decreasing
the population, declining number of children, becoming aging society, getting
married later
A huge
number of singers compete to others with not only their singing ability, but
also their originalities, such as attractive face, acrobatic performance, gorgeous
clothes and personalities. They much focus on their originality than singing
performance because they cannot attract people, so they have to differentiate
them from other singers.
Paradigmatic
Replaced a man to Zayn Malik (a member of One Direction), who wears noticeable
suits.
-Zayn looks
like the leader of the group and main vocal. Others look like just the musical
instrument performer.
-Just one
person stands out. Audiences probably focus on him unconsciously and remember
the band. In 1967, this style of performance would be strange; however, this
style is obviously accepted by society in modern Japanese society. Many bands
try to stand out just one of the member and make audiences focus on the person
during their performance.
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ReplyDeleteI understand the change you've explained of the band/group from the 60s to now, but I felt that more connection to the social history would have helped understand the transition better. The history given feels like a separate part of the information versus enhancing on the ideas you had.
ReplyDeleteI agree. More elaboration on the social history of the 60s and the present would have helped me understand your argument a lot better. I can understand how the different dress of the people in the videos/music helped to change the mood, but how has the mood and dress of people ultimately changed since the 60s? That's the question you have to answer at this point.
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