Adorno positions ‘the popular music industry as an all consuming production line that churns out mass produced inferior commodities’ and while modern popular music is comparable to traditional factories, with ‘part interchangeability’ streamlining costs and the idea of ‘Pseudo Individualisation’ suggesting “new” music is essentially this, standardisation isn’t unique to popular music; for example; Jim Connell’s 1889 ‘The Red Flag’ was significantly influenced by ‘My love was Born in Aberdeen’ (18thcentury folk song), a single illustration of standardisation in an alternative genre, suggesting Adorno is fundamentally erroneous because of his specification to popular-music.
On the other hand Adorno may have limited accuracy, as Gendron’s theory suggests a Universal and a Particular. Universal equals the song, while the particular refers to the c.d. suggesting the music itself is art, though the record is the mass produced commodity. In conclusion, my opinion is original recording are art, mass produced c.d’s are not.
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A well considered and, in the main, intelligently expressed post that takes account of two contrary theoretical positions and come to its own conclusion.
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