MUSI 1000 Lecture 2: Lecture Notes
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The culture industry is successful because people fetishize cultural objects. Creates false needs, alternative ways of thinking without people realizing. Purchasing a concert ticket: standardization, popular music standardized, number of types immediately recognizable, small number of structures, small number of components to each song that"s interchangeable (ex. intro,verse,chorus etc, pseudo-individualization. The type of variation between standardized products. Surface changes (rhythm), not basic structure (chord progressions, verse, chorus) If pop music is standardized, why doesn"t everything sound the same: high vs low culture. Differences: degree of standardization, level of complexity, market context, adorno: could take a chorus out and still makes sense. Serious, needs to listen to entirety to understand song. Real difference is market context, how it"s consumed. Popular is market oriented: role of the listener. Caught up in a standardized and routine set of responses. People who enjoy this are corrupted and open to capitalism. Critical attack on contemporary music: on popular music in advertising , his premise:
