CMNS 321 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9-2: Microphone, Simon Frith, Good Music
13 Mar 2017
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Art versus technology: the strange case of popular music (simon frith) Legitimate" music hall or opera singers reached their concert hall audiences with the power of their voices alone; the sound of the crooners,by contrast, was artificial. This argument, common on the folk scene in the early 1960s,proposes that. Third, technology is opposed to art. electronic amplification alienates performers from their audiences. the drummer is a musician in a way that the drum machine programmer is. What isat stake in all these arguments is the authenticity or truth of music; the not. implication is that technology is somehow false or falsifying. line-ups. Each of these moments in rock history fused moral and aesthetic judgements: rock"n"roll, rhythm"n"blues and punk were all, in their turn,experienced as more truthful than the popforms they disrupted. This is a paradoxical belief for a technologically sophisticated medium and rests on.
