Popular music is without a doubt a saleable commodity, in its functional artefact form, different to other commodities of course because it must bring something new or apparently new each time it is sold again. This Apparent newness is one of Adorno’s arguments against popular music, he suggests it is standardised with a hint of pseudo individualization to trick the audience into consuming it again. Of course the flaw in his argument is that popular music knows it is like that and does in fact have a different criterion to the classical music that Adorno prefers; this doesn’t necessarily make it any less of an art form in its text form than any other type of music. Adorno’s theory mainly fails because he is trying to compare it to classical music which can also suffer from standardization and pseudo individualization as can all music, just because it does it does not necessarily make it any less art.
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Another good post. I like the way that you have made a distinction between the text and the artefact (perhaps you could have mentioned Gendron here) to make some interesting and valid points.
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