1. Popular Music and Contemporary U.S. Culture
... music is standardized even where the attempt is made to circumvent standardization. (1941, 302) Thus, in Adorno's view, popular music fails to negate the dominant social order, encompass an oppositional stance, or express critical thought. Instead, popular music is "rigid" and "mechanical." This is unlike serious music, which is "non-standardized," and "[every] detail ... of the term scene featured in many popular music studies of the 1990's onward endeavoring to redefine popular music communities. Will Straw uses the term to describe "that cultural space in which a range of musical pra...
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