SOCI 3810 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Douglas Rushkoff, Justin Bieber, Theodor W. Adorno

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Adorno"s and rushkoff ideas hold true to all forms of popular music creativity and consumption. In the article by adorno, he explains how pop music is defined by standardization and the prototypes such as melody, harmony, and lyrics that need to be followed for a song to attract a wide variety of audience. He also states how the concept of standardization is used to form pop music. A predictable pop song uses 32-bars and a bridge which commences the repetition. Songs like these that are aimed at different age groups may have different prototypes. For example, a song by celine dion follows a different prototype compared to a song by justin bieber, although they both might be pop song. This type of standard in the music industry allows music to be accessible to not only those who have prior knowledge of music.

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