Kramer work

1. Timbaland - The Way I Are

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5rLz5AZBIA&feature=artistob&playnext=1&list=TLQ7dMxktUP2o

Is in some ways ironic.
Considers music not as autonomous but as relevant to cultural, social, and political contexts.
Considers technology not only as a way to preserve and transmit music but also as deeply implicated in the production and essence of music.

2. Stockhausen - Gesang der Junglinge

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XfeWp2y1Lk

Challenges barriers between low and high styles.
Shows disdain for the often unquestioned value of structural unity.
Questions the mutual exclusivity of elitist and populist values
Includes quotations of or references to music of many traditions and cultures.
Considers technology not only as a way to preserve and transmit music but also as deeply implicated in the production and essence of music.
Encompasses pluralism and eclecticism.
Locates meaning and even structure in listeners, more than in scores, performances, or composers.

3. Alvin Lucier - I Am Sitting in a Room

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jfssj80oNuM

Does not respect boundaries between sounds and procedures of the past and of the present.
Considers technology not only as a way to preserve and transmit music but also as deeply implicated in the production and essence of music.
Includes fragmentations and discontinuities.
Presents multiple meanings and multiple temporalities.
Locates meaning and even structure in listeners, more than in scores, performances, or composers.

4. David Bowie - Life on Mars

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v--IqqusnNQ

Is in some ways ironic.
Challenges boundaries between low and high styles.
Considers music not as autonomous but as relevant to cultural, social, and political contexts.
Embraces contradictions.
Presents multiple meanings and multiple temporalities.
Locates meaning and even structure in listeners, more than in scores, performances, or composers.

5. The Bloodhound Gang - Mope

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2NFl86LX3Q

Does not respect boundaries between sounds and procedures of the past and of the present.
Challenges barriers between low and high styles.
Shows disdain for the often unquestioned value of structural unity.
Includes quotations of or references to music of many traditions and cultures.
Considers technology not only as a way to preserve and transmit music but also as deeply implicated in the production and essence of music.
Includes fragmentations and discontinuities.
Locates meaning and even structure in listeners, more than in scores, performances, or composers.