Description
| Product ID: | 9781509552030 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Theory Redux |
| Title: | Aesthetics of Pop Music |
| Authors: | Author: Diedrich Diederichsen |
| Page Count: | 176 |
| Subjects: | Society and culture: general, Society & culture: general |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Polity Press |
| Publisher Name: | John Wiley and Sons Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-03-31 |
