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Thursday, October 1, 2015

Stasis Theory: Space Oddity

Although it is more difficult to identify specific aspects of stasis theory in a song, most of them are definitely present. In the case of Space Oddity, the astronaut was certainly a major phenomenon. It came out right before the Apollo 11 mission, at the height of the Space Race. The main character of the song, Major Tom, is a fictional character, but he represents the attitude towards astronauts at the time. The slow melody and minimization of lyrics serves to provide the audience a depiction of space. However, there is a slightly sinister ending as Major Tom gets lost in space. This shows the idea that space exploration might not be the purely good thing that was the prevalent thought at the time.
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4 comments:

  1. RHETORIC AYYOctober 4, 2015 at 12:20 PM

    I really like how you were able to analyze the slow melody and minimization of the lyrics where it is otherwise hard to analyze stasis theory for a song. However, I believe that it will help your argument even more to to elaborate on why you meant by the slow melody and minimization of lyrics because I felt you did not go into enough depth for that. In addition, it probably would not hurt to add a couple hyperlinks to things people may be uninformed about, such as Apollo 11.

    -Jason Recht

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  2. BlogicOctober 4, 2015 at 8:04 PM

    I think you did a very good job with this analysis. However, I think you could add a little more to it by specifically addressing each of the questions asked in stasis theory.

    -Scott Newman

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  3. civil rhetoricOctober 7, 2015 at 8:35 AM

    You condensed everything about "Space Oddity" into a nice blog post. You did a good job of writing the idea of "Space Oddity" clearly. I think this is a good example of a blog post, because it is concise and gets your point across.

    -Garrett Fitzgerald

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  4. UnknownOctober 8, 2015 at 10:13 AM

    I think this post makes some good points about the time period of which the song was written and how David Bowie crafted the song to make the audience think about space. However, in terms of using stasis theory this post is a bit confusing. I think that if this post was split into four parts to address each question your post would be a bit more clear.

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