Songs

__Songs and Belonging__

Songs can tell us in different ways about the notion of Belonging. Often personal, songs aim to deleve into the emotional content of the individual and explore the tributaries that make up our river of feelings. They can have a multitude of agendas. Songs do not only exist to exlpore love and the connections and experiences people have had over it. Songs can be political, social and cultural, they can exlpore more than just the singularity of an individual's emotions. It is in this way that songs can bear our understanding of what it means to belong, how composers belong and undertand beloning, and finally, they provide a different medium through which belonging can be created.

__Techniques__

The techniques used in song are the same techniques that you have used for film and poetry. Do not listen to the music, view the film clip and relate that to belonging, and do the same for the lyrics, treat them like poetry. The film clip:
 * Camera shots
 * Camera angles
 * Lighting
 * Juxtaposition
 * Mise-en-scene

The Lyrics: Some songs to think over...
 * Rhyme
 * Metaphor
 * Imagery
 * Simile
 * Assonance
 * Alliteration

Red Hot Chilli Pepper's - Under the Bridge media type="youtube" key="GLvohMXgcBo" width="551" height="455" align="center"

John Butler Trio - Zebra media type="youtube" key="PO2b3cggqs0" width="551" height="455" align="center"

U2 - Bloody Sunday media type="youtube" key="EM4vblG6BVQ" width="551" height="455" align="center"

Cold Play - Viva La Vida media type="youtube" key="dvgZkm1xWPE" width="551" height="455" align="center"