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What is transmission and why is it important? Do I agree with Ratliff

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What is transmission and why is it important? Do I agree with Ratliff

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Transmission is the act of going beyond just the artist performing, making the artist very small compared to the forces that are guiding them.  Transmission is the act of giving more than you need to your listeners/audience.  This act of going above and beyond is what leads people to believe that music mimics emotion. This concept in music is important because it is what makes the listener more emotionally attached or connected to a piece of work by an artist. Ratliff argued that If the artist is able to let the song seem open ended and slowed down and sung with raw emotion, it is more likely that a song will resonate with more individuals. I agree with this statement just from personal experience, slow and heartfelt songs will really get me emotionally and they resonate with me more.

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This is the audio recording of the song I chose, which is "The Morning After" by Frankie Beverly and the Maze.

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FRANKIE BEVERLY & MAZE * After The Morning After

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THE JAZZY SOUL SINGING of Maze * featuring Frankie Beverly

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This is the music video for the song Ordinary People by John Legend. I feel that not only the song but the music video as well shows transmission.

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John Legend - Ordinary People (Official Music Video)

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For my song that I think shows the concept of transmission, I picked "Ordinary People" by John Legend. I picked this song because it has a nice instrumental accompaniment to go along with Legend. Legend's lyrics are specific, yet vauge, leaving room for a wide range of different people to relate to the words he is singing. He does not try and make the song speed up unnecessarily, he keeps it nice and flowy. The simple one instrument accompaniment also keeps the song less busy and it makes it more personal. John Legend gets to a part in the song where he begins to ask a lot of questions that shows his uncertainty of the future and he doesn't necessarily answer these questions, he instead states that, "We're just ordinary people, we don't know which way to go. We're just ordinary people, we just need to take it slow." I feel that those lyrics just make the song that much more transmissional, it leaves the listener feeling as if its ok that they are uncertain about their life.

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This is an image of John Legend, the artist of the song "Ordinary People."

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This is an image of the artist I chose to anaylize from Ratliff's playlist. I chose to look at the song "The Morning After" by Frankie Beverly and the Maze. This is an image of the artists.

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I picked the song called "The Morning After" by Maze from Ratliff's playlist. I picked this one because there seems to be different characteristcs between the instrumental and Frankie Beverly, the vocalist. The instrumental seems to be more jazzy and a nice chill backdrop to what the artist is singing. What the artist is singing is more blusey in nature and he disscusses the uncertainty of the nature of his relationship with the girl he just had an affair with. The slowness of the song and the drawing out of the notes help to keep the raw emotion in the piece. The qestions that he asks, but never really answers, create that uncertainty feeling, but this also helps in keeping the listener engaged in the piece and makes it seem bigger than just that the artist is going through.