Thursday, September 16, 2010
Summary Practice
The author discusses the social functions of "serious" and "popular" music, a distinction he makes between mass produced popular music and a real form of art which is "serious" music. He posits that "popular" music serves only a sociological function in that it is determined by the social atmosphere of that time and "serious" music is created for transcendental purposes in that it passes through social forces. His main point is that "serious" music has social forces at the time it was made hidden in it while "popular" music literally tells us those social forces.
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