MUS 505 Study Guide - Final Guide: Double Bass, Strophic Form, Religious Music
25 May 2016
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Culture industry - the institution or institutions that create cultural practices and products for sale on a mass scale. Commodification - turning a culture practice into a thing that can be bought and sold (live music into recordings, for example) Standardization - in capitalist society, popular culture (and, by extension, popular music) is standardized, using the same formula to appeal to the masses. Most popular music of the last 100 years contains a verse, chorus and bridge, and these elements are interchangeable without damaging the song. Pseudo-individuality - endows cultural products with the halo of free choice through the open market standardization of song hits keeps the customers in line by doing their thinking for them, as it were. Pseudo-individuation, for its part, keeps them in line by making them forget that what they listen to is wholly intended for them or predigested.
