ENG-3803 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Multitrack Recording, Thomas Edison, Phonograph
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1889 phonograph parlors opened up, where customers could buy a song for a nickel. Performances music, poetry, drama need no longer be live. Same effect as when people could read individually. Adorno on thought (cid:862)when men are forbidden to think, their thinking sanctions what simply exists. The genuinely critical need of thought to awaken from the cultural phantasmagoria is trapped, channeled, steered into the wrong consciousness(cid:863) Does the listening for the listener (makes listening passive) Commodified- (cid:858)pluggi(cid:374)g,(cid:859) gla(cid:373)our, su(cid:271)je(cid:272)tio(cid:374) of creativity to commodity. Inauthentic pro(cid:373)oti(cid:374)g i(cid:374)a(cid:271)ility to es(cid:272)ape, to i(cid:373)agi(cid:374)e, yo e(cid:374)gage with (cid:858)authe(cid:374)ti(cid:272) (cid:272)ulture(cid:859) Consumption encourages listeners inattention and distraction (political economy of popular music and commodification generally. So the music industry gives listeners what it wants them to want) Rerecording: the fade away of original as inception. Performance now becomes an object to be modified, played with. Movement from performing to recording (analogue) to recording (digital)
