Jonathan Kramer: Summer Camp

1. Summer Camp take a modernist and post-modernist style in their music, there are two band members but in their music there are clearly more than two instruments. This means they have used samples or digitised music, such as keyboards or a section of another song placed within theirs.
2. Came across as Swedish / American, which raised their popularity because it's considered 'cool'... When people found out they were British it became 'messing about with cool music'.
3. The video for 'Round the Moon' by Summer Camp takes a video from a 1980s film, but has audio from the present, modern day - the video however fits in with the style of the song meaning that there is no difference between the music and style of the past and present.
4. Summer Camp write their own songs and are therefore singer/songwriters; their music is classed in a high style.
5. Summer Camp have a classic/cliche approach to their music, and have the typical 'beginning, middle, and end' of a song. However, The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations ignores this rule.
6. Summer Camp has not been in the 'Top 40' or any form of chart hits, this means they are elitist rather than populist. However they are 'cool' at the minute, although once they make it big time they may become 'uncool' because everyone 'mainstream' will like them.
7. The sound samples on Summer Camp's website all sound completely different, this avoids totalizing forms. However their music does all sound the same, which contrasts that of their website.
8. Summer Camp's music is very Americanised, and could be seen as relevant to American pop culture.
9. Very focused on American, pop, preppy culture.
10. Some of Summer Camp's songs include computer produced music, for example GarageBand on Mac computers can allow regular people to create drum beats or the sound of a piano.
11. Using clips from old fashioned films to make music videos to their modern songs, this is a contradiction of style.
12. Summer Camp do not distrust the binary opposition theory, as the girl is very girly, and the boy has a more manly appeal.
13. The 'Round the Moon' video uses clips from a 1980s movie, this is an homage as it pays respect to the film and the context of the song fits in with the chosen clips from the film.
14. Summer Camp uses a techno sound, similar to those of Vampire Weekend.
15. Visuals and audios from different years
16. This relates to the idea that in the modern day people can like all styles of something, and not just be stuck in one category; this does not relate to Summer Camp.