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Changing Mediums and Understanding Genres

This study material explores how the medium through which a text is delivered significantly impacts its content, purpose, audience, and persona. It prompts consideration of how a composition changes when adapted across different mediums, such as from a book to a film or a comic strip to a video game, highlighting specific techniques like "intercuts" in film.

Furthermore, it defines literacy genres as specific forms of communication tailored to particular rhetorical situations and delivered via appropriate mediums, citing examples like political speeches and wedding toasts. The concept extends to music genres, which are examined in terms of their diverse subgenres (e.g., country, hip-hop, jazz with its own sub-styles like swing, Dixieland, bop). Understanding music genres involves analyzing the personas musicians adopt, the primary audiences they target, and the profound influence of social contexts such as race, class, gender, and politics on artists and their work. The material also encourages reflection on how genres themselves evolve over time.

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Changing Mediums and Understanding Genres