Bricolage

Music narratives:
• 8 mile
• The Doors
• School of Rock
• Tenacious D
• Michael Jackson
• Mighty Boosh: Fresh perspective on rock music and rock bands.
• Boat that Rocked (parody of real life events= when rock and roll took off.
• Remixing existing audience opinions about the music industry
• Stereotypes: Rock musicians: Drugs, women etc.
• Woodstock parodies
• Hippies


These music narratives help to shape our understanding of music culture and how it influences society. The music narratives that are listed above help to show this and help to break the boundaries and establish new stereotypes and link to bricolage in terms of 'building' our knowledge and some of these examples are based on real events such as woodstock and the emergence of rock and roll music. These help to create perfect parodies for a new piece of media.

The Mighty Boosh

· Looking in the camera: Reaching out to the audience and giving them a more detailed idea of the current situation.
· Postmodern ideas over what is good music: ‘no-one listens to Jazz’
· Eclectic ideas of costume. Nothing they wear makes sense in the scenes.
· No laughter track
· Characters have similar characteristics, but also very different ones
· Tying in new musical ideas that modern artists like Lily Allen attempt to use.
· Mise-en-scene working on music in small room. Like working on a car in a garage. Personal thinking space.
· Active audience: playing on the hilarious side of eclecticism encourages people to watch after seeing the adverts.
· Postmodern: Takes self reflective approach
· Mixture of pleasure and trauma like in the Office
· Eclecticism gives it own identity in tough TV area : Sitcom
· Parody of music programmes that are focused on a love of music but are a lot more mature
· Audience can empathise with the characters as these are the sought of situations that can crop up in everyday society.