What's Typical of Genre?

The following codes and conventions are typical of Genres in music:

• Typical instruments - Synthpop uses the synthesizer
• Typical sounds, pace, volume and tempo of music - Heavy metal is fast
• Typical style of singins - Pop would be very layed back light singing
• Context/ Theme - Synthpop has a very furturistic theme/ context
• The band appearence is very typical of genre - Punk bands are all leather, Mowhawk, black colours

Paradigmatic - What we select from Genre to put into video
Syntagmatic - How you conbime them in the video. How it's edited and filmed.

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"something which is really typical of the genre"

Edwin Panofsky

1953