Aesthetics of Pop Music

Diedrich Diederichsen

• Editorial: Polity
• Año: 2023
• ISBN:
  9781509552047
• Edición: 1
• Categoría: Ciencias sociales
• Categoría: Estudios de medios

In this short book, the leading German cultural critic Diedrich Diederichsen puts forward a fresh and original account of pop music. He argues that pop music is not so much a form of music as a constellation of different media channels, social spaces and behavioural systems, of which music is only a part. Its own logic of attraction is based less on compositions and the expression of subjectivity and more on indexicality, real or pseudo-involuntary effects as recorded by sound technologies, and on studio discipline and staging, and hence on performance.

By elaborating his innovative account of pop music as a constellation, Diederichsen develops a theory that distinguishes itself from sociology, cultural studies, media studies and ethnography, while at the same time drawing on and encompassing them all.

Índice

• Cover
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Preface
• 1 Pop Music Is a Form of Indexical Art
• 2 Pop Music Belongs to the Second of Three Culture Industries
• 3 At the Heart of Pop Music Is No Object, but an Impulse to Connect
• 4 An Assembly of Effects and Small Noises
• 5 Minus Music: Popularity and Criticism
• 6 Production Aesthetics
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