Adorno states ‘the popular music industry as an all consuming production line that churns out mass produced inferior commodities’. Some genres of music are part interchangeable and part pseudo individualization; the structure of the music is the same but the details change. Adorno’s theory is right here, but, standardization is not just limited to popular music. Other genres of music also adopt this, folk and country music all have similarities commodities but retain their individuality.
Bernerd Gendron theory is that there is a universal and a particular, in music the universal would be the song and the particular would be the vinyl or C.D. This argues that all music is an art form, and it is the record that is the mass produced commodity. You can’t mass produce a song but you can mass produce a C.D of a song. This therefor retains the artist reverence of music.
a pretty solid and well presented post
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