Trent Woolley
For my Icon print, I got a lot of good feedback about music in particular, so I included some musical elements into my print. But overall the microphone was for me supposed to represent being unable to find your voice or be in a place where your voice is heard and understood.
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Art History Student Responses to Trent Woolley:
By Abigail Tesauro:
My initial reaction was that I liked what it is associated with, music. My association with a microphone is that you use it for projecting music, famous people use it, and it can be used to reach many people in a large space.In the article it talks about how the microphone changed the music business for the better, artists like Bing Crosby were one of the singers in 1925 to help bring popularity to the microphone.
Lockheart, Paula. 2003. “A History of Early Microphone Singing, 1925-1939: American Mainstream Popular Singing at the Advent of Electronic Microphone Amplification.”PopularMusic&Society26 (3): 367–85. doi:10.1080/0300776032000117003
By Karina Garcia:
The icon I chose was the microphone. My initial reaction to this icon was that it relates to music, especially to many iconic songs and singers. I believe that most people today will associate the microphone to music and the act of singing.I found one article that talks about culture through music. Jennifer Penelope Infantino explores culture through music at an independent studies high school. The project starts by explaining that music plays an essential role in the lives of people in the world and explains that there is no known culture that does not use music today.
Infantino, Jennifer Penelope. 2010. Exploring Culture through Music at an Independent Studies High School