"Sell Out with Me Tonight"

[jochen stremmel]

I would bet that Bacharach has seen this movie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT5Js8Cdvi0.

George Roy Hill definitely.


2014-08-23 12:31 GMT+02:00 Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>:

>
> > Is popular music as monolithic as he would have us believe? <
>
> Of course it isn't. Actually Adorno literally refused to seriously listen
> to any popular music after 1941. It would perhaps have endangered the
> theory. And since he considered his theory to be somehow like art - the
> title of his last work, "Ästhetische Theorie", presents its double sense by
> intention -, this risk could of course not be taken ... As much as I
> recommend Adorno's thoughts on classical music, one shouldn't overestimate
> what he has to say on popular music. And TV-serials like "Mad Men",
> "Breaking Bad" or "The Wire" (at least the first three seasons are solid
> gold) can in their artistic complexity not be explained with the relative
> simple model of the Kulturindustrie, which was born in World War two and
> thus always emphasizes the relation of media output and political
> propaganda. That "the cultural industry strikes everything with similarity"
> might still be true nevertheless when we consider Facebook & Co to be the
> actual incarnations of the cultural industry today. So many selfies and
> they all look the same ...
>
> Here's a piece of popular music I like a lot these days:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM3Hex4n-Ns
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  > Ibid., p. 438. Adorno, rather overstating the rigidity of the
> schematics, goes into specifics of standardization; ‘Best known is the rule
> that the chorus consists of thirty-two bars and that the range is limited
> to one octave and one note. The general types of hits are also
> standardized: not only the dance types, the rigidity of whose pattern is
> understood, but also the “characters” such as mother songs, home songs,
> nonsense or “novelty” songs, pseudo-nursery rhymes, laments for a lost
> girl.’ (Ibid., p. 438)
>
> 9 ‘There are a number of points to be made about Adorno’s analysis [in ‘On
> Popular Music’]. First, we must acknowledge that he is writing in 1941.
> Popular music has changed a great deal since then. However, having said
> that, Adorno never thought to change his analysis following the changes
> that occurred in popular music up until his death in 1969. Is popular music
> as monolithic as he would have us believe? For example, does
> pseudo-individualization really explain the advent of rock’n’roll in 1956,
> the emergence of the Beatles in 1962, the music of the counterculture in
> 1965?’ John Storey, *Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction*
> (Harlow: Pearson Education, 2012), p. 69.<
>
> On 22.08.2014 21:32, Dave Monroe wrote:
>
> https://www.pynchon.net/owap/article/view/55
>
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://waste.org/pipermail/pynchon-l/attachments/20140823/0d4f6a0e/attachment.html>