Aesthetics of Pop Music

1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-5095-5203-0
Verlag: Polity Press

Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 124 mm x 188 mm, Gewicht: 185 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Diederichsen, Diedrich

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kultursoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

I. Pop Music is a Form of Indexical Art

II. Pop Music is the Second of Three Culture Industries

III. At the Heart of Pop Music is No Object, but an Impulse to Connect

IV. An Assembly of Effects and Small Noises

V. Minus Music: Popularity and Criticism

VI. Production Aesthetics

Notes

Über Autor(innen)

Diedrich Diederichsen is Professor of Theory, Practice and Communication of Contemporary Art at the Vienna Academy for Fine Arts.