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Aesthetics of Pop Music

Aesthetics of Pop Music

Hardcover

Series: Theory Redux

General SociologyPop/Rock

ISBN10: 1509552022
ISBN13: 9781509552023
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: May 30 2023
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.71 Width: 4.96 Depth: 7.56
Language: English

In this short book, the leading German cultural critic Diedrich Diederichsen puts forward a fresh and original account of pop music. He argues that pop music is not so much a form of music as a constellation of different media channels, social spaces and behavioural systems, of which music is only a part. Its own logic of attraction is based less on compositions and the expression of subjectivity and more on indexicality, real or pseudo-involuntary effects as recorded by sound technologies, and on studio discipline and staging, and hence on performance.

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