Sunday, 1 March 2009
Is popular music a mass produced commodity or a genuine art form?
Firstly popular can be counted as with different meanings such as what people like, or what people use and do. Popular music consists of music traditions, styles, influences and is an economic product. Art can be understood as meaning or creativity. People argue art is all around us, whereas arguably art is a single person’s feeling appreciated by others. In the modern era it can also be argued that musicians use other musicians sounds and styles because it was popular in the past, where as in the past the people who created music could be seen as artists as they created the whole sound by them selves. To conclude, in the past popular music could be seen as art, but in the modern era is a mass produced commodity as the same styles and sounds are repeatedly used because they no the public will enjoy and appreciate them.
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I have a few problems with this post. 1) who are these 'people' who say art is all around us? 2) Where does the modern era begin 3) Even if you can define such an era, there was never really a golden age in which artists did not borrow or gain inspiration from other people's work.
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