MUSI 1001 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Mary Margaret Mcbride, Kardinal Offishall, Death Row Records
9 Apr 2016
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Books and aricles from a variety of diferent disciplines, including sociology, musicology, media studies, etc. The literal deiniion: music that is popular, but it is more complex than this. Theodor adorno (1903-1969: member of the frankfurt school, colleagues include horkheimer, marcus, habermas, criical theory, marxist understanding of society, criicized capitalism. The culture industry: made up of economic insituions, it produces forms of culture that are commodiies, according to adorno, the commodiicaion of cultural products leads to a standardizaion of these products, standardizaion leads to passivity in consumers. Standardizaion: popular music is standardized in several ways, a number of types that are immediately recognizable, a small number of structures, a small number of components to each song that are interchangeable. Pseudo-individualizaion: the type of variaion that exists between standardized products, surface changes, they do not alter the basic structure. High vs. low culture: serious vs. popular music, diferences incl: The use of popular music in adverising is growing.
